Keisuke Nakamura

Keisuke Nakamura is a Japanese architect and the founder of DAIKEI MILLS, the Tokyo practice he opened in 2011 and runs from Kameari, in Katsushika ward. Working from commercial interiors to public buildings, he designs site-specific spaces and treats existing structures as material to be re-read rather than erased, with the distance between things, places and people as his recurring subject.

His clients include Issey Miyake, Artek, CIBONE, Timberland and NOT A HOTEL, and in 2019 he launched SKWAT, a project that temporarily occupies unused urban voids and opens them to the public, which led to the SKWAT Kameari Art Centre under the elevated railway tracks. He has taught at Tama Art University since 2021, and in 2025 he sat on the jury of alter. Tokyo, the emerging-design event covered by DesignWanted.