The ranking is not based on the revenue one firm made - it is based on a "score" system which values architects design works. And, sure, no large corp firm in north America was listed in top 100 internationally.
Here is the link.
You can switch the language to English and sure select the ranking - International.
1 [1] 310 Herzog und de Meuron Basel
2 [2] 263 Office for Metropolitan Architecture [OMA] Rotterdam
3 [4] 227 SANAA Architekten Tokyo
3 [3] 227 Steven Holl Architects New York
5 [5] 205 Zaha Hadid London
6 [6] 197 UN Studio Amsterdam
7 [8] 162 Foster and Partners London
8 [7] 155 Jean Nouvel Paris
9 [9] 128 MVRDV Rotterdam
10 [12] 127 Zumthor, Peter Haldenstein
11 [11] 123 Toyo Ito Tokyo
12 [10] 122 David Chipperfield Architects London
13 [13] 105 Gigon / Guyer Architekten Zurich
14 [28] 95 Snohetta Oslo
15 [14] 90 Peter Märkli Zurich
16 [18] 87 Daniel Libeskind New York
17 [16] 84 Diller Scofidio + Renfro New York
18 [14] 81 Alvaro Siza Oporto
18 [36] 81 Olgiati, Valerio Zurich
18 [23] 81 Renzo Piano Genoa
21 [25] 79 Krischanitz, Adolf Vienna
22 [18] 77 Atelier Kempe Thill Rotterdam
23 [36] 74 Dominique Perrault Paris
23 [17] 74 Kengo Kuma Tokyo
25 [21] 72 Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch Saarbrücken
26 [48] 71 BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Copenhagen
27 [21] 69 Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal Paris
28 [24] 68 Future Systems London
28 [88] 68 MGM Morales Giles Mariscal Arquitectos Valencia
30 [26] 66 Coop Himmelb(l)au Vienna
30 [26] 66 LIN - Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi Berlin
30 [36] 66 Sou Fujimoto Architects Tokyo
33 [28] 65 PTW Architects Sydney
34 [31] 63 Shigeru Ban Tokyo
35 [32] 62 Anna Heringer Berlin
35 [32] 62 Barkow Leibinger Architekten Berlin
35 [32] 62 J. Mayer H. Berlin
38 [523] 60 Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects Copenhagen
39 [40] 59 Gion A. Caminada Vrin
39 [20] 59 Paulo David Arquitecto Funchal
41 [36] 57 Grimshaw, Nicholas und Partner London
42 [28] 56 Morphosis Santa Monica
43 [43] 55 Burkard Meyer Architekten Baden
43 [43] 55 Rudy Ricciotti Bandol
45 [83] 54 baumschlager & eberle Lochau
45 [53] 54 Feyferlik / Fritzer Graz
45 [45] 54 Hans-Jörg Ruch Architektur St. Moritz
45 [41] 54 Massimiliano Fuksas Rome
45 [45] 54 The next ENTERprise Vienna
50 [184] 53 Alvaro Siza Vieira Oporto
50 [48] 53 Richard Meier New York
52 [71] 51 Adjaye Associates London
52 [42] 51 Frank O. Gehry Santa Monica
54 [88] 50 Bearth, Valentin / Deplazes, Andrea Chur
54 [51] 50 Grazioli & Muthesius Berlin
56 [52] 49 Bétrix & Consolascio Architekten Erlenbach
57 [53] 48 Rintala Eggertsson Oslo
57 [53] 48 Tesar, Heinz Vienna
59 [32] 47 Jarmund / Vigsnaes Architekten Oslo
60 [53] 46 Christian Kerez Zurich
60 [59] 46 hg merz architekten Stuttgart
60 [59] 46 JDS Architects Copenhagen
60 [59] 46 Jose Selgas + Lucia Cano Madrid
64 [62] 45 Bernhard Tschumi Architects New York
64 [62] 45 EM2N Architekten Zurich
64 [62] 45 Markus Wespi & Jerome de Meuron architects Zurich
67 [117] 44 Behnisch Architekten Stuttgart
67 [68] 44 Helen & Hard Stavanger
67 [68] 44 Knapkiewicz und Fickert Architekten Zurich
70 [71] 43 Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei Stuttgart
70 [139] 43 Querkraft Architekten Vienna
72 [73] 42 Geninasca Delefortrie Architectes Neuchatel
73 [77] 41 Christian de Portzamparc Paris
73 [77] 41 Ecosistema Urbano Madrid
73 [160] 41 Fretton, Tony London
73 [77] 41 Grüntuch Ernst Architekten Berlin
77 [82] 40 Gianni Botsford Architects London
78 [83] 39 Bosshard, M., Luchsinger, C. Lucerne
78 [83] 39 Hertl.Architekten Steyr
78 [83] 39 Owe Arup & Partner London
78 [171] 39 RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Architects Olot
82 [88] 38 Anderhalten Architekten Berlin
82 [88] 38 Caruso St. John Architects London
82 [88] 38 Delugan Meissl Associated Architects Vienna
82 [88] 38 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners London
82 [57] 38 Sean Godsell Melbourne
87 [95] 37 Feichtinger Architectes Vienna
87 [95] 37 Müller Sigrist Architekten Zurich
89 [97] 36 Brückner & Brückner Tirschenreuth
89 [97] 36 Claus en Kaan Amsterdam
89 [97] 36 Henn Architekten Munich
89 [97] 36 Henning Larsen Tegnestue Copenhagen
89 [97] 36 Pool Architekten Zurich
89 [97] 36 Tadao Ando Osaka
89 [73] 36 Tezuka Architekten Tokyo
89 [97] 36 Uwe Schröder Architekt Bonn
97 [104] 35 Zhu Pei, Wang Hui Beijing
98 [106] 34 Aires Mateus, de M. und de F. Lisbon
98 [106] 34 FAM Architekten Madris
98 [106] 34 Jean-Marc Ibos & Myrto Vitart Paris
98 [106] 34 Jun Aoki Tokyo
i mean seriously. i go on arch daily every day and there is nothing interesting coming out of american architects. i'm not even looking for avant garde, i'm just hoping to see something built and detailed beautifully.
In the US, I think it's more a problem of great architectural projects being of a smaller scale than and Europe and the venues for publishing interesting work being very limited.
Arch Record (for what its worth) publishes perhaps 5-8 projects a month, which includes international work. And that's pretty much it, with a spiral of second tier publications like Dwell (with a very particular editorial bent), Architect (perpetually changing publishers and formats), Interior Design, Contract, Architectural Digest and the Robb Report. Ugh.
At least once a month someone in a non-coastal city introduces me to a terrific project that by design or omission has gone totally unnoticed... but it is usually a private home or a clever small scale public project that stuns me through ingenuity rather than poetry. I think I'm okay with things the way they are.
Also, how is Snohetta #14 worldwide? Psah. I shall file this list right alongside the BCS and Design Intelligence rankings.
what p2an said. The list is based on publications: points are given for articles in certain magazines (with more points for longer articles). However, the list seems to have a certain bias: for the international ranking, the following magazines are bringing in points:
Bauwelt, Detail, Architectural Review, A+U, architektur.aktuell, L'architecture d'aujordhui, Werk Bauen und Wohnen, Domus.
So there is a strong European emphasis on the selected magazines, and a strong german-language bias within that. Not to bring the listing down (which I think is a great initiative and as good as any listing can be), but I believe that the selected magazines push the results in a certain direction. I think the German (national) list works better, to that extent.
And for Medit: There's the practice of "the old" Alvaro Siza, and the practice of his son. Hence: two Alvaro Siza's on the list...
I've been all over Europe and while they do have probably better design as a whole, they also have their fair share of crap...and architects designing it.
What I've also noticed is that the typical news stand in Europe has far more architecture publications than your average American news stand. Seems clear to me that any ranking based on published projects would heavily favor the firms over in the "old country."
in the "old country" there are 1:more architects 2:better architects that 3:make better projects for a 4:bigger design-minded audience that 5:likes to read about design so 6:buys more magazines that's why there 7:is a bigger market for more different magazines and thus 8:the "old country" scores more publications.
And for Medit: There's the practice of "the old" Alvaro Siza, and the practice of his son. Hence: two Alvaro Siza's on the list...
and how come the father -AS Vieira, Pritzker prize and a true master, ranked 50- is ranked below his son -AS, unknown outside Portugal, ranked 18-? .. if the list "values architects design works" that doesn't make sense at all.. or the conclusion would be that not everything that appears in magazines is better than what does not appear in them.
Given this ranking system, I'd say it says more about international architectural publishing than it does about architects. Nevertheless, the overall content of the list seems about right.
Medit: the son has some projects lately (especially that house on a sloping hillside) that have had quite some publicity...
ok, then according to the Sizas case this list is about publicity and not about any other specific value of all these architect's works... but would that mean then that large American corps are not that good publicizing themselves?
I think the American audience is really lame. We like vinyl siding and asphalt shingles. Bigger always trumps better. I see it in my shite suburban location. "Beautiful" new homes made of shit. You go in these crap boxes and they are boringly detailed and decorated with garbage by the owners. We've all seen the type. When I was in Japan, even the prefab houses, or whatever (the houses that were advertised on TV as one you could buy and have assembled) were pretty decent. You could go to go to essentially a house lot and choose the house you wanted to buy.
Below are some examples. Now, not AWESOME, but better than the McMansion.
There was also a TON of crap, but they have a different appreciation for design (take for example that the 1st Xbox sold poorly due to ugly design). And you would see some pretty slick houses going up in all types of neighborhoods.
I'm working PT at this local firm and they designed a three-pack of townhouses for this guy that owns land in MD. Pretty nice places. I think they are really sharp, big glass facing the bay, flat roof with a little kick up over the big window, lots of interesting layering with walls and balconies. The owner doesn't think they are marketable. (There is a huge complex of vinyl clad McCondos on the next lot. The following is NOT the house and it's NOT designed by our firm. But, it could give you some sense of some of the elements of the houses.
Annoys me that this is something that isn't marketable to a general American audience. But this... is a dream house.
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International Archi Firms Ranking - By Baunetz Office_Germany
The ranking is not based on the revenue one firm made - it is based on a "score" system which values architects design works. And, sure, no large corp firm in north America was listed in top 100 internationally.
Here is the link.
You can switch the language to English and sure select the ranking - International.
1 [1] 310 Herzog und de Meuron Basel
2 [2] 263 Office for Metropolitan Architecture [OMA] Rotterdam
3 [4] 227 SANAA Architekten Tokyo
3 [3] 227 Steven Holl Architects New York
5 [5] 205 Zaha Hadid London
6 [6] 197 UN Studio Amsterdam
7 [8] 162 Foster and Partners London
8 [7] 155 Jean Nouvel Paris
9 [9] 128 MVRDV Rotterdam
10 [12] 127 Zumthor, Peter Haldenstein
11 [11] 123 Toyo Ito Tokyo
12 [10] 122 David Chipperfield Architects London
13 [13] 105 Gigon / Guyer Architekten Zurich
14 [28] 95 Snohetta Oslo
15 [14] 90 Peter Märkli Zurich
16 [18] 87 Daniel Libeskind New York
17 [16] 84 Diller Scofidio + Renfro New York
18 [14] 81 Alvaro Siza Oporto
18 [36] 81 Olgiati, Valerio Zurich
18 [23] 81 Renzo Piano Genoa
21 [25] 79 Krischanitz, Adolf Vienna
22 [18] 77 Atelier Kempe Thill Rotterdam
23 [36] 74 Dominique Perrault Paris
23 [17] 74 Kengo Kuma Tokyo
25 [21] 72 Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch Saarbrücken
26 [48] 71 BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Copenhagen
27 [21] 69 Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal Paris
28 [24] 68 Future Systems London
28 [88] 68 MGM Morales Giles Mariscal Arquitectos Valencia
30 [26] 66 Coop Himmelb(l)au Vienna
30 [26] 66 LIN - Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi Berlin
30 [36] 66 Sou Fujimoto Architects Tokyo
33 [28] 65 PTW Architects Sydney
34 [31] 63 Shigeru Ban Tokyo
35 [32] 62 Anna Heringer Berlin
35 [32] 62 Barkow Leibinger Architekten Berlin
35 [32] 62 J. Mayer H. Berlin
38 [523] 60 Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects Copenhagen
39 [40] 59 Gion A. Caminada Vrin
39 [20] 59 Paulo David Arquitecto Funchal
41 [36] 57 Grimshaw, Nicholas und Partner London
42 [28] 56 Morphosis Santa Monica
43 [43] 55 Burkard Meyer Architekten Baden
43 [43] 55 Rudy Ricciotti Bandol
45 [83] 54 baumschlager & eberle Lochau
45 [53] 54 Feyferlik / Fritzer Graz
45 [45] 54 Hans-Jörg Ruch Architektur St. Moritz
45 [41] 54 Massimiliano Fuksas Rome
45 [45] 54 The next ENTERprise Vienna
50 [184] 53 Alvaro Siza Vieira Oporto
50 [48] 53 Richard Meier New York
52 [71] 51 Adjaye Associates London
52 [42] 51 Frank O. Gehry Santa Monica
54 [88] 50 Bearth, Valentin / Deplazes, Andrea Chur
54 [51] 50 Grazioli & Muthesius Berlin
56 [52] 49 Bétrix & Consolascio Architekten Erlenbach
57 [53] 48 Rintala Eggertsson Oslo
57 [53] 48 Tesar, Heinz Vienna
59 [32] 47 Jarmund / Vigsnaes Architekten Oslo
60 [53] 46 Christian Kerez Zurich
60 [59] 46 hg merz architekten Stuttgart
60 [59] 46 JDS Architects Copenhagen
60 [59] 46 Jose Selgas + Lucia Cano Madrid
64 [62] 45 Bernhard Tschumi Architects New York
64 [62] 45 EM2N Architekten Zurich
64 [62] 45 Markus Wespi & Jerome de Meuron architects Zurich
67 [117] 44 Behnisch Architekten Stuttgart
67 [68] 44 Helen & Hard Stavanger
67 [68] 44 Knapkiewicz und Fickert Architekten Zurich
70 [71] 43 Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei Stuttgart
70 [139] 43 Querkraft Architekten Vienna
72 [73] 42 Geninasca Delefortrie Architectes Neuchatel
73 [77] 41 Christian de Portzamparc Paris
73 [77] 41 Ecosistema Urbano Madrid
73 [160] 41 Fretton, Tony London
73 [77] 41 Grüntuch Ernst Architekten Berlin
77 [82] 40 Gianni Botsford Architects London
78 [83] 39 Bosshard, M., Luchsinger, C. Lucerne
78 [83] 39 Hertl.Architekten Steyr
78 [83] 39 Owe Arup & Partner London
78 [171] 39 RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Architects Olot
82 [88] 38 Anderhalten Architekten Berlin
82 [88] 38 Caruso St. John Architects London
82 [88] 38 Delugan Meissl Associated Architects Vienna
82 [88] 38 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners London
82 [57] 38 Sean Godsell Melbourne
87 [95] 37 Feichtinger Architectes Vienna
87 [95] 37 Müller Sigrist Architekten Zurich
89 [97] 36 Brückner & Brückner Tirschenreuth
89 [97] 36 Claus en Kaan Amsterdam
89 [97] 36 Henn Architekten Munich
89 [97] 36 Henning Larsen Tegnestue Copenhagen
89 [97] 36 Pool Architekten Zurich
89 [97] 36 Tadao Ando Osaka
89 [73] 36 Tezuka Architekten Tokyo
89 [97] 36 Uwe Schröder Architekt Bonn
97 [104] 35 Zhu Pei, Wang Hui Beijing
98 [106] 34 Aires Mateus, de M. und de F. Lisbon
98 [106] 34 FAM Architekten Madris
98 [106] 34 Jean-Marc Ibos & Myrto Vitart Paris
98 [106] 34 Jun Aoki Tokyo
cool.
3 [3] 227 Steven Holl Architects New York... huh??
BIG has higher score than future system??... huh??
they have breakdowns of german firms, too.
makes me wanna move back. damn
that's depressing.
what is wrong with this country?
This is even better than ranking the schools!
i mean seriously. i go on arch daily every day and there is nothing interesting coming out of american architects. i'm not even looking for avant garde, i'm just hoping to see something built and detailed beautifully.
In the US, I think it's more a problem of great architectural projects being of a smaller scale than and Europe and the venues for publishing interesting work being very limited.
Arch Record (for what its worth) publishes perhaps 5-8 projects a month, which includes international work. And that's pretty much it, with a spiral of second tier publications like Dwell (with a very particular editorial bent), Architect (perpetually changing publishers and formats), Interior Design, Contract, Architectural Digest and the Robb Report. Ugh.
At least once a month someone in a non-coastal city introduces me to a terrific project that by design or omission has gone totally unnoticed... but it is usually a private home or a clever small scale public project that stuns me through ingenuity rather than poetry. I think I'm okay with things the way they are.
Also, how is Snohetta #14 worldwide? Psah. I shall file this list right alongside the BCS and Design Intelligence rankings.
i think the taste of the general public of america is very behind the world.
there are two Alvaro Sizas in the list (?)
this list seems rather accurate
"BIG has higher score than future system??... huh??"
The principal is dead - of course that would take down the score.
this is just goofy
the list ranks offices by the amount of articles that are published in a specified set of publications.
and i guess thats as good as any method to rank them
dern...i didn't even make the top 100....what??
Seriously, why?
what p2an said. The list is based on publications: points are given for articles in certain magazines (with more points for longer articles). However, the list seems to have a certain bias: for the international ranking, the following magazines are bringing in points:
Bauwelt, Detail, Architectural Review, A+U, architektur.aktuell, L'architecture d'aujordhui, Werk Bauen und Wohnen, Domus.
So there is a strong European emphasis on the selected magazines, and a strong german-language bias within that. Not to bring the listing down (which I think is a great initiative and as good as any listing can be), but I believe that the selected magazines push the results in a certain direction. I think the German (national) list works better, to that extent.
And for Medit: There's the practice of "the old" Alvaro Siza, and the practice of his son. Hence: two Alvaro Siza's on the list...
I've been all over Europe and while they do have probably better design as a whole, they also have their fair share of crap...and architects designing it.
What I've also noticed is that the typical news stand in Europe has far more architecture publications than your average American news stand. Seems clear to me that any ranking based on published projects would heavily favor the firms over in the "old country."
in the "old country" there are 1:more architects 2:better architects that 3:make better projects for a 4:bigger design-minded audience that 5:likes to read about design so 6:buys more magazines that's why there 7:is a bigger market for more different magazines and thus 8:the "old country" scores more publications.
randomized, i agree.
i'm just frustrated overall with america's longstanding obsession with nostalgia.
obviously that exists in europe (and everywhere) on some level but american architects have so much less influence in the residential environment.
and how come the father -AS Vieira, Pritzker prize and a true master, ranked 50- is ranked below his son -AS, unknown outside Portugal, ranked 18-? .. if the list "values architects design works" that doesn't make sense at all.. or the conclusion would be that not everything that appears in magazines is better than what does not appear in them.
Given this ranking system, I'd say it says more about international architectural publishing than it does about architects. Nevertheless, the overall content of the list seems about right.
@Medit: the son has some projects lately (especially that house on a sloping hillside) that have had quite some publicity...
52 [71] 51 Adjaye Associates London
52 [42] 51 Frank O. Gehry Santa Monica
---What's special for Adjaye? This guy is pretty young and emerged out so quickly!
ok, then according to the Sizas case this list is about publicity and not about any other specific value of all these architect's works... but would that mean then that large American corps are not that good publicizing themselves?
olson sundberg sure as sh*t is...
The Krauts like their Kultur and someone like Foster or Piano can be big and do very innovative work.
I am puzzled by Liebeskind and then there's the guy in LA that built next to the Schindler house. O'Hearly? The latter's work is excellent.
Is there anyone else's work from LA listed other than Morphosis and Gehry?
other la firms:
michael maltzan @ 118
daly genik @ 197 (wtf)
@ 201+
pugh scarpa
Workshop Hakomori Yantrasast
John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
Kaa architectes
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Marmol & Radziner
Moore Ruble Yudell
Eric Owen Moss
Marklee, Johnston
neil denari
ray kappe
predock_frane architects
this is a great resource though I can't figure out how to switch to english on the website. any help with that?
Holz,
What do you mean that HOK isn't in the top 96?
Weren't they "the world's greatest architecture firm" a year or so ago?
;-)
did HOK fold yet?
nice to see anna heringer moving up on the list...
Good stuff, Holz. What a breath of fresh air!
Looks like I'm the only one that thinks this whole thing is pretty stupid.
We should check these against the NTAAB thread to see if they correlate.
I think the American audience is really lame. We like vinyl siding and asphalt shingles. Bigger always trumps better. I see it in my shite suburban location. "Beautiful" new homes made of shit. You go in these crap boxes and they are boringly detailed and decorated with garbage by the owners. We've all seen the type. When I was in Japan, even the prefab houses, or whatever (the houses that were advertised on TV as one you could buy and have assembled) were pretty decent. You could go to go to essentially a house lot and choose the house you wanted to buy.
is a dream house.
Below are some examples. Now, not AWESOME, but better than the McMansion.
There was also a TON of crap, but they have a different appreciation for design (take for example that the 1st Xbox sold poorly due to ugly design). And you would see some pretty slick houses going up in all types of neighborhoods.
I'm working PT at this local firm and they designed a three-pack of townhouses for this guy that owns land in MD. Pretty nice places. I think they are really sharp, big glass facing the bay, flat roof with a little kick up over the big window, lots of interesting layering with walls and balconies. The owner doesn't think they are marketable. (There is a huge complex of vinyl clad McCondos on the next lot. The following is NOT the house and it's NOT designed by our firm. But, it could give you some sense of some of the elements of the houses.
Annoys me that this is something that isn't marketable to a general American audience. But this...
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