Yuko Nagayama

Yuko Nagayama is a Tokyo architect, born in 1975. She graduated from the Department of Living Science at Showa Women’s University in 1998, joined Jun Aoki & Associates the same year and left in 2002 to establish Yuko Nagayama & Associates, a first-class registered architects office.

The practice moves between commercial and cultural buildings, houses, products and exhibition design, with a portfolio that includes the Panasonic Group pavilion “Nomo no Kuni” and the Women’s Pavilion in collaboration with Cartier, both for Expo 2025, alongside OSAJI “hisn” and the Advantest Gunma R&D Center. Recognition includes Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard in 2012, the JIA Newcomer Award in 2014 and the Tokyo Architecture Award.