SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Looking Back: Architecture Career Advice

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A design studio review at the University of Oregon (my photo) This post is another outcome of my ongoing efforts to sort through and purge t...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Urban Identity and Collective Memory

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  Piazza San Marco, Venice (photo by  Claudio Schwarz   on  Unsplash )   During a recent, spirited round of Swedish death cleaning here in ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Architecture is Awesome: #39 The Comfort of a Corner

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Photo by Annie Spratt  on   Unsplash   This is another in my  series of posts   inspired by  1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning b...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

The Brutalist

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My wife and I sought refuge from Friday afternoon’s rain by immersing ourselves within the imagined world of a great movie— The Brutalist . ...
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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...
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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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