SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Architectural Freedom vs. Political Mandates

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  “Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectura...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

The Architecture of Restraint

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies – Louis Kahn, architect  (photo by Jason Taellious, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licen...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Wildfires, Climate Change, and the Architecture of Resilience

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Los Angeles fire map, January 12, 2025 (Google Maps) As I write this, firefighters are making determined progress toward containing the deva...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: U

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U.S. Post Office, Eugene (photo by Tamanoeconomico, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commo...
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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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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