SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, November 30, 2025

The Sub-Critical City

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A system held below its critical slope: grains settle quietly, avalanches rare. Eugene’s growth boundary has shaped a city that resists sudd...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Architecture is Awesome: #42 Framing Long Views

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Villa Rotunda (photo by Andrew Hopkins from his essay Neither Perfect Nor Ideal: Palladio's Villa Rotonda ) Framing a long view is chore...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Flight 93 National Memorial

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  Flight 93 National Memorial (all photos by me unless noted otherwise). My recent trip across Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Henry Chapman Mercer’s Quixotic Castles and Caves

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Fonthill Castle (all photos by me) During my recent trip to Pennsylvania, I visited three remarkable buildings in Doylestown, Bucks County: ...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Fallingwater, Finally

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Fallingwater (all photos by me).   In a post I wrote back in 2009 , I described how a photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater left m...
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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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