SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

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The poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) loved and defended Chicago, his adopted home. Sandburg described his poem Chicago as a chant of defianc...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Chicago, That Toddlin’ Town

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Spectacular aerial view of Chicago by Jake Davis @inairshare_designer . Jake is a principal and Public Safety Design Leader with DLR Group....
Sunday, June 12, 2022

The Downtown Riverfront Park is Open!

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View looking west from the river overlook at the east terminus of 5th Avenue (all photos are by me). The City of Eugene celebrated the grand...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Market Day

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  Inside the Lane County Farmers Market Pavilion, opening day June 4, 2022 (all photos are mine). For many years, a go-to weekend activity f...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Innocence Lost

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  (Photo credit: VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)   The terrifying familiarity this past week of yet another mass shooting at a sc...
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Randy Nishimura, AIA Member Emeritus
I am a retired architect living in Eugene, Oregon. After four-plus decades in practice, I stepped away from the drafting board but not from thinking (and writing) about architecture—what it means, why it matters, and how it continues to surprise and challenge me.
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