SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Crafting Community Through Art: A Murals Update

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Detail view, north mural of the Lane Community College Health Professions Building by Jessilyn Brinkerhoff (photos by me unless otherwise no...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: V

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  North-facing view of Villard Hall, University of Oregon. The current renovation project is due for completion by the end of this year. (al...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

What Makes Eugene, Eugene?

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Hanging out in downtown Eugene's Park Blocks on a summer Saturday afternoon (all photos by me unless noted otherwise). Eugene doesn’t fi...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Influences: Leon Krier (1946–2025)

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  Leon Krier (photo by  Rggv, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) I cannot say that ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Architecture is Awesome: #40 Light and Shadow

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Photo by Mateusz Butkiewicz on Unsplash This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning bl...
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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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