Tyler Nishitani NOMA, AIA
Bio
Tyler is a design-oriented architect, leader and strategic thinker with 20+ years of experience bringing ambitious projects from conception to reality.
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Tyler has an abundance of public, intuitional and community-oriented project experience, having served in designer, project architect, and project manager roles.
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As a mixed race (hapa), fourth generation Japanese-American (yonsei) and third/fourth generation Portlander, Tyler embraces his cultural and local heritage in his work.
Approach
Ambitious work requires a greater investment in design. Finding harmony between functionality, performance, beauty, cultural-resonance, resiliency, flexibility, material-richness, cost, etc. is complicated. It takes a talented, organized, dedicated and inspired team to execute the work. It's the responsibility of design leaders to orchestrate the process in a way that makes it is as fulfilling, joyful, and efficient as possible for the design team, for clients and for stakeholders.
Work History
Associate, Project Manager
Associate, Project Manager
Associate, Project Architect, Researcher
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8 week project studying professional design process/methodology across various design fields
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Conducted 60+ interviews
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Identification and study of a variety of success metrics and outlying approaches / practices
Affiliations
Tyler has served on the Board of Directors since 2021
Tyler is the President of a new charitable / education non-profit fundraising foundation.
Tyler has served on the Garden Resource Committee since 2017