As the Director of Urban Strategies in Woods Bagot’s San Francisco office for almost three years, Nishimura played a key role in research focused design strategies that extend into areas beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism while ensuring pragmatic but visionary solutions for his clients. Project are tackled from an ecological, data driven and evidence based design perspective. Nishimura’s projects all seek a critical balance between visionary design and fiscally responsible economic development to achieve memorable, sustainable, and enduring places for both the public and private realm. He recently took a new role at Gensler’s San Francisco office where he will be directing their planning, landscape and urban strategies unit practice areas.