SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Project 2025

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SketchUp model of our house. I'll use the model to help explain the scope of our planned renovation to a prospective contractor.  No, no...
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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Yes In My Backyard

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College Hill Cottages by Cultivate, Inc. (rendering from the firm's website). Oregon's missing middle housing mandate and its implem...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Architecture is Awesome: #38 Seeing Stonework Sparkle Like New

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Inside the nave of the reconstructed Notre-Dame de Paris (photo by Quirinale.it, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curi...
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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Homogenized Glory

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Lucas Oil Stadium (photo by SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As I w...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Architect Emeritus

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  Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash.   Come January I will no longer be eligible to actively practice architecture as I will have relinqu...
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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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