Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1972, graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1998; finished his master's degree in 2000. Set up Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture in 2007 after working at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects; serving as associate professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts since 2014. His major works include "2004", "O House", "Y Building", "Y House", "Stone Island's Stone", "Curves and Chords", "mitosaya botanical distillery", "Printmaking Studio/ Frans Masereel Centrum" (a collaboration with LIST).
His major awards include the SD Review 2004 Kajima Prize (2004), the 23rd Yoshioka Award (2007), the Red Dot Design Award (2014), the 17th Environmental and Equipment Design Award (2019), and an academic award in the housing category from the Japan Society For Finishings Technology (2019). Mr. Nakayama's major publications include "Hideyuki Nakayama: Sketching" (Shinjuku Shobo), "Hideyuki Nakayama 1/1000000000" (LIXIL Publishing), and ", and then: 5 films of 5 arhitectures" (TOTO Publishing).