SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

  Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash As 2025 draws to a close, like many others, I find myself reflecting on what has passed and what might...

Ya-Po-Ah Terrace (my photos) This is the penultimate entry in my  Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet  series of blog posts, the focus of each bein...

Photo by Elist Nguyen on Unsplash The Christmas holiday season matters to me, though not for reasons of doctrine. I have always felt its pu...

Robert A.M. Stern (1939-2025) Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) In just the past few days, two figures synonymous with the architectural culture of...

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