SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Encounters with Architecture - Insights from a Hundred Places

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  I know Howard Davis , and I don't know him, which is a strange thing to admit about someone I first encountered (the word feels apt gi...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Architecture is Awesome: #43 Market Halls and the Bustle of Commerce

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Reading Terminal Market (all photos by me unless noted otherwise). This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

The Suburban Dream and the Civic Ledger

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  Salinas_mcMansion.jpg: Brendelderivative work: NVO, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Com...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

College Hill Cottages Tour and Housing Discussion

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At the invitation of the City of Eugene, I joined roughly thirty participants on June 11 for a tour of the College Hill Cottages , followed ...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

AIA Eugene Section Meeting: Friendly Hall and the Northwest Center for Architecture

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Friendly Hall Renovation, June 18, 2026 (my photo). Last Wednesday's meeting of the American Institute of Architects - Eugene Section of...
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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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