SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, January 29, 2023

What if?

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The Obie Companies' 5th Street Market Expansion. (my photo) Multiple online articles regarding the future of the downtowns of U.S. citie...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Happenings

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The former EWEB headquarters (my photo). This past week was an eventful one on the Eugene scene, at least from my perspective as someone int...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Miguel McKelvey: From UO Architecture to WeWork IPO

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  The WeWork saga—the company’s meteorically epic rise and precipitous downfall—has become the stuff of legend: a cautionary tale about the ...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Architecture is Awesome #27: Asymmetry

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  Fallingwater (photo by Sxenko   via  Wikimedia  used under the  GNU Free Documentation License ,  Version 1.2)   This is another in my  se...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Precise-General Frames

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  Jeune homme Ă  la fenĂȘtre (1876 painting by Gustave Caillebotte, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Bill Kleinsasser was fundamental...
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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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