SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, January 28, 2024

A Splendid Torch: Henry Mercer’s Historical Connections (Part 1)

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Fonthill, the home of Henry Chapman Mercer, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (photo by Concord - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.o...
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: Q

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Quackenbush Building (my photo) This is the next in my  Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet  series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landma...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Architecture is Awesome: #35 Problem Solving

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This is another in my  series of posts  inspired by  1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by  Neil Pasricha . The seri...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

LCC Health Professions Building

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Sunrise over the Lane Community College campus. I have enjoyed the opportunity to work on a variety of significant projects throughout my ca...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

A New Year, A New Chapter

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It is New Year’s Eve as I write this, and people everywhere are or will shortly be celebrating the turn of the calendar to 2024. By marking ...
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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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