Chief Designer / Director

1975	Born in Zurich, Switzerland
1999	B.A. in Architecture, Osaka University of Arts, Japan
	Joins NOMURA Co.,Ltd.
2013	Establishes Aono’s room in Commercial Environmental Design Department
2014	Starts collaboration with Nendo Inc.
2020	Establishes no.10

Keita Aono was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1975.
He spent his childhood in Zurich.
After returning to Japan, he lived in Fukuoka and then moved to Osaka to study architecture at Osaka University of Arts.
Keita joined Nomura Co., Ltd., in 1999.
He established Aono’s room in Commercial Environmental Design department in 2013.
His design experience has extended from retail facilities and restaurants to a chapel and guest rooms in a hotel and commercial and tourism facilities.
His design fuses eastern and western ideas, reflecting cosmopolitan childhood experiences, and has earned domestic and international recognition.
He started collaborating with Oki Sato at Nendo in 2014 and helped establish an alliance in 2016.
He established no.10 in 2020.

2019	* Kukan Design Award 2019 - Gold prize and bronze prizeby
2018	* DSA Japanese Spatial Design Awards - Silver prize
2017	* JCD Design Award - Silver prize and Yukio Hashimoto prize
	* DSA Japanese Spatial Design Awards - Silver prize
	* DFA Design for Asia Awards - Grand, Bronze, and Merit prizes
	* FRAME AWARDS 2017 - People’s Choice Prize
2015	* JCD Design Award - Silver prize by
	* DSA Japanese Spatial Design Awards - Excellence prize
2014	Display Industry Award (2014) - Display Industry Grand Prix
2013	Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards 2014 (APIDA) - Best 10
	Nominated for JCD / DSA and more awards
* The accomplishment of onndo