SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Courting Aesthetics

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Detail view of the new court design's "missing man" formation of flying ducks (photo from GoDucks.com) As both a devoted fan o...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Crafting Community Through Art

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Lane Community College Health Professions Building nearing completion. The violet-blue stucco panels are where the intended murals will be l...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Sweets Catalog

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  While cleaning out my office space at Robertson/Sherwood/Architects, I came across a well-preserved first edition of the Sweets Catalog . ...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

17 Rules

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A necessary rite of my transition into retirement has been to sort through a sizable collection of career-related personal documents I amass...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Pearls of Wisdom

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  The Good Advice  (original title: Le bon conseil), by  Jean-Baptiste Madou .   I enjoyed a lengthy lunch this past Friday with my friend a...
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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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