SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, August 30, 2026

What If? The Emerald Canal

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Emerald Canal model between Oak & Pearl to the Amazon channel (image source:   pages.uoregon.edu/diethelm/CanalImages.html )   During my...
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Echoes in Eugene

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  The Australian Pink Floyd Show performing at the Hult Center, August 4, 2026 (my photo). Earlier this month, my wife and I thoroughly enjo...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

The Butsudan

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A butsudan; not ours, but similar (photo credit: CC BY 2.1 jp, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1801262) The house I grew up ...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Stuff I Stumbled Upon

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I sometimes find it tough to decide what to write about for my next blog post. This week was one of those times — that is, until I found ins...
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Sunday, August 2, 2026

The Arithmetic of Downtown Housing

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1055 Willamette (Rowell Brokaw Architects) After years of vacancy, developers deChase Miksis and Edlen & Co. are set to start construc...
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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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