100 BEST
ARCHITECT IN THE
WORLD
1
Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori
Faculty of Mathematics of the Catholic Social housing
University of Chile Monterrey , Mexico
Chile
St. Edwards University Student Hall Siamese Towers , Catholic University of
Austin, Texas, United States Chile
Santiago, Chile
2
Võ Trọng Nghĩa
Wind and Water Bar Bamboo Wing
Binh Duong Province Vinh Phuc, Viet Nam
Stacking Green House Dailai Conference Hall
Ho Chi Minh City Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam
3
Emmanuel A Miñana
Villa Marina Ramirez Residence
Sta. Elena, Laguna Manila
1996 APEC Summit Presidential Villas CEMEX HEAD OFFICE
Triboa Bay, Suibic Manila
4
Santiago Calatrava
Yuan Ze University (Building) Università Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata
Taipei Rome
Sondica Airport Control Tower Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport Railway
Bilbao Station
Colombier-Saugnieu
5
Daniel Libeskind
Royal Ontario Museum Rom Brussels Jewish Museum
Toronto, Canada Berlin, Germany
Grand Canal Theatre Frederic C. Hamilton Building
Dublin, Ireland Denver, USA
6
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Chicago Federal Center, built 1964–1974 Farnsworth House
Chicago Chicago
Lake Shore Drive Seagram Building
Chicago, Illinois Elmhurst, Illinois
7
Philip Johnson
Glass House IDS Center
798–856 Ponus Ridge Road, New Canaan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Connecticut
PPG Place Christ Cathedral
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US United States
8
Eero Saarinen
MIT Chapel, 1955 General Motors Technical Center, 1956
Cambridge, Massachusetts Warren, Michigan
Miller House and Garden, 1957 Milwaukee County War Memorial Center,
Columbus, Indiana 1957
Milwaukee
9
Richard Rogers
Inmos Microprocessor Factory Lloyd's building
Newport, UK (1982) London, UK (1986)
Millennium Dome Barajas Airport
London, UK (1999) Madrid, Spain (2005)
10
Frank Gehry
Guggenheim Museum Walt Disney Concert Hall
Bilbao, Spain Los Angeles, California
Louis Vuitton Foundation Dancing House
Paris, France Prague, Czechia
11
Norman Foster
South Quay Plaza Apple Al Maryah Island
London, UK Abu Dhabi, UAE
Euro America Financial City (EFC) Narbo Via
Hangzhou, China Narbonne, France
12
Renzo Piano
Centre Pompidou The Shard
Paris, France London, England
Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina Auditorium Parco della Musica
San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy Rome, Italy
13
Ben van Berkel
Erasmus Bridge (1991–1996) Het Valkhof Museum (1995–1998)
Rotterdam, Netherlands Nijmegen, Netherlands
Möbius House (1993–1998) Mercedes-Benz Museum (2001–2006)
Naarden, Netherlands Stuttgart, Germany
14
Bernard Tschumi
Parc de la Villette Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University
Paris, France (1983–98) New York City (1999)
New Acropolis Museum FIU School of Architecture, Florida
Athens, Greece (2002–08) International University
Miami, Florida (2003)
15
Bjarke Ingels
Islands Brygge Harbour Bath VM Houses
Copenhagen Ørestad, Copenhagen
Danish Maritime Museum Superkilen
Helsingør, Denmark Copenhagen
16
César Pelli
Kukui Gardens housing San Bernardino City Hall
Honolulu, Hawaii San Bernardino, California
Century City Medical Plaza Minneapolis Public Library's Central
Century City, Los Angeles branch
Minneapolis
17
Joshua Prince-Ramus
Vakko Headquarters and Power Media Center AT&T Performing Arts Center's Dee and
(2010) Charles Wyly Theatre (2009)
Istanbul, Turkey Dallas, Texas
Munch Museum (2009) Kunsthaus Zurich Extension Competition
Oslo, Norway (2009)
Zurich, Switzerland
18
Ken Yeang
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Solaris
Extension Singapore
United Kingdom
Mesiniaga Tower Spire Edge Tower
Malaysia India
19
Moshe Safdie
Habitat 67 at Expo 67 World's Fair Musée de la Civilisation
Montreal, Quebec, Canada Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
National Gallery of Canada New City of Modi'in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Israel
20
Peter Zumthor
Elementary school Churwalden House Räth
Churwalden, Graubünden, Switzerland Haldenstein, Graubünden, Switzerland
Atelier Zumthor Saint Benedict Chapel
Haldenstein, Graubünden, Switzerland Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland
21
Rafael Moneo
National Museum of Roman Art Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium
Mérida, Spain San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Davis Art Museum Audrey Jones Beck Building
Wellesley, Massachusetts Houston, Texas
22
Rafael Viñoly
Tokyo International Forum Bronx Housing Court
Tokyo, Japan Bronx, New York
Jongno Tower Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
Seoul, South Korea Columbia University, Palisades, New York
23
Rem Koolhass
Nexus World Housing Kunsthal
Fukuoka Rotterdam
Embassy of the Netherlands McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Berlin Chicago
24
Richard Meier
Westbeth Artists Community Meier House
New York City Essex Fells, New Jersey
Bronx Developmental Center The Atheneum
The Bronx, New York New Harmony, Indiana
25
Amanda Levete
Architecture and Technology (MAAT) Central Embassy Shopping Center
Lisbon Bangkok, Thailand
2015 MPavilion V&A museum
Melbourne London
26
Norma Merrick Sklarek
Fox Plaza California Mart
San Francisco, California Los Angeles, California
San Bernardino City Hall Pacific Design Center
San Bernardino, California Los Angeles, California
27
Denise Scott Brown
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Perelman Quadrangle, University of
Harvard University Pennsylvania
Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia
Provincial Capitol Building Museum of Contemporary Art
Toulouse, France San Diego; La Jolla, California
28
Maya Lin
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (VVM) (1980– Women's Table (1990–93), Yale University
82) New Haven, Connecticut
Washington, D.C
Museum for African Art (1992–93) Wave Field (1993–95), FXB Aerospace
New York City Engineering Building, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
29
Adrian Smith
Central Park Tower Waldorf Astoria
New York City Beijing, China
Pearl River Tower Burj Khalifa
Guangzhou, China Dubai, UAE
30
Odile Decq
Viaduct and Operation Center of the A14 Greenland Pavilion
motorway Shanghai, China
Nanterre, France
FRAC Bretagne, Regional Contemporary Art GL Events Headquarters
Fund Lyon, France
Rennes, France
31
Julia Morgan
North Star House St. John's Presbyterian Church
Grass Valley, California Berkeley, California
Chapel of the Chimes Hearst Building, Market & 3rd,
Oakland San Francisco
32
Marion Mahony Griffin
Capitol Theatre, Swanston Street Edward P. Irving Residence
Melbourne, Australia Decatur, Illinois
Robert Mueller Residence, 1 Millikin Place Adolph Mueller Residence, 4 Millikin Place
Decatur, Illinois Decatur, Illinois
33
Jean Nouvel
John Hancock Tower (1973) Nemausus 1 (Housing, 114 apartments)
Boston Nimes, France
Arab World Institute (together with Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
Architecture-Studio) (Office / Cultural)
Paris, France Paris, France
34
Walter Gropius
The Bauhaus Building MetLife Building
Dessau, Germany New York City
John F. Kennedy Federal Building Fagus Factory
Boston, Massachusetts Germany
35
Michael Graves
Denver Public Library Detroit Institute of Arts
Denver, Colorado, United States Detroit, Michigan
Humana Building Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Louisville, Kentucky Isla Vista, California
36
Sou Fujimoto
Final Wooden House House before House
Kumamoto Utsunomiya
N House Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Oita London
37
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Estádio Serra Dourada Patriarch Plaza
Brazil Brazil
Brazilian Sculpture Museum Patriarch Plaza
São Paulo São Paulo
38
Toyo Ito
Library of Tama Art University Mikimoto Ginza 2
Tokyo Tokyo
Sendai Mediatheque Serpentine Gallery
Japan London
39
Charles Correa
Bharat Bhavan City Centre
Bhopal Kolkata
Ismaili Center Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
Toronto Ahmedabad
40
Alberto Campo Baeza
Rufo House Turegano House
Toledo Madrid
De Blas House MA Museum
Madrid Granada
41
Lúcio Costa
New York World's Fair of 1939 (designed with Parque Guinle residential complex in Rio of
Oscar Niemeyer) 1948
New York
Hotel do Park São Clemente Gustavo Capanema Palace
Nova Friburgo Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
42
Arne Jacobsen
Aarhus City Hall Bellavista Housing Estate
Denmark Denmark
Bellevue Teatret Embassy of Denmark
Copenhagen London
43
Christopher Alexander
Eishin Campus Julian Street Inn
Japan San Jose, USA
Mountain View Civic Center Sala House
CA, United States California
44
Marcel Breuer
Hubert H. Humphrey Building Robert C. Weaver Federal Building
Washington DC Washington DC
UNESCO Headquarters Becton Center, Yale University
Paris
45
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Church of Saint Andrew’s Palazzo Barberini
Quirinal Rome
St. Peter’s Baldachin Palazzo Montecitorio
Rome Rome
46
Royal Pineda
Qi Wellness, Signa Residence
Tagaytay Philippines Makati City, Philippines
Bangkota Blue Ridge
UAE, Dubai Atlanta Georgia, USA
47
Royal Pineda
Qi Wellness, Signa Residence
Tagaytay Philippines Makati City, Philippines
Bangkota Blue Ridge
UAE, Dubai Atlanta Georgia, USA
48
Otilio Arellano
1953 Philippines International Fair 1964 Philippine Pavilion for the World
Manila Exposition
Flushing Meadows, Queens
Metropolitan Theater (1978 Restoration) Palacio Del Gobernador
Manila Intramuros, Manila
49
Steven Holl
Bellevue Arts Museum Campbell Sports Center
Bellevue, Washington New York
Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
New York
50
Peter Behrens
American Medical Association Fuji Television Building, Tokyo
Building, Chicago
Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
51
Zaha Hadid
Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein, Germany Heydar Aliyev
(1991–93) Center in Baku, Azerbaijan (2007–2013)
Galaxy SOHO in Beijing, China (2008–2012) Jockey Club Innovation Tower at the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University (2007–2014)
52
Frank Gehry
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, Olympic Fish Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
California
Neuer Zollhof, Dusseldorf, Germany DZ Bank Building, Berlin, Germany
53
Frank Lloyd Wright
First Unitarian Society of Madison, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, 1947 City, 1956–1959
Gammage Auditorium, Tempe, Arizona, Fallingwater (Edgar J. Kaufmann
1959–1964
Sr. Residence), Mill Run,
Pennsylvania, 1935–1937
54
Le Corbusier
1962: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 1947–1952: Unité d'Habitation, Marseille,
Harvard University, Cambridge, France
Massachusetts, U.S.
1925: Villa Jeanneret, Paris, France 1949–1952: United Nations headquarters, New
York City, U.S. (Consultant)
55
Antoni Gaudi
Casa Vicens, de Antoni Gaudí (Barcelona) El Capricho (1883-1885) of Antonio Gaudí, in
Comillas (Cantabria, Spain)
Pabellones Güell, de Antoni Gaudí (Barcelona) Sagrada Familia Expiatory Church In
Barcelona Spain
56
Walter Gropius
1960 Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, 1910–1911 the Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der
Maryland) Leine, Germany
1959–1961 Embassy of the United States, 1968 Glass Cathedral, Thomas Glassworks,
Athens, Greece (The Architects' Collaborative Amberg
and consulting architect Pericles A.
Sakellarios)
57
Álvaro Siza Vieira
1958-1963: Boa Nova restaurant in Leça da 1977-1997: Malagueira Social Housing, Évora,
Palmeira, Portugal P980-1984: Bonjour Tristesse,
Berlin, Germany
1964: Beires House ("The Bomb House"), 1959-1973: Piscinas de Marés swimming-pool,
Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
58
David Childs
383 Madison Avenue (2002) Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle (2003)
450 Lexington Avenue (over the Grand JFK International Airport Arrivals Building
Central Station Post Office at Grand Central
Terminal)
59
Eero Saarinen
Washington Dulles International Airport in Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
Washington, D.C.
Kleinhans Music Hall in Symphony TWA Flight Center at JFK International
Circle, Buffalo, New York Airport
60
Harry Seidler
MLC Centre, Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre, Wohnpark-Neue-Donau, Vienna, Austria,
Ultimo, Sydney, 2001–07Sydney, 1972–75 1993
MLC Centre, Sydney, 1972–75 Riparian Plaza, Brisbane (1999–2005)
61
Kenzo Tange
Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō, Tokyo, Japan St. Mary's Cathedral (Tokyo Cathedral),
Tokyo (1964)
St. Mary's Cathedral (Tokyo Cathedral), Cenotaph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park,
Tokyo (1964) Japan
62
Louis Kahn
National Assembly of Bangladesh assembly Trenton Jewish Community Center Bath
hall (2014) House and Day Camp
Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban,Dhaka, Bangladesh Ewing, New Jersey (1954)
Parliament of Bangladesh (2014) Arts United Center in Fort Wayne,
Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban, Bangladesh Indiana, USA
63
Louis Sullivan
People's Federal Savings and Loan Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Association, Sidney, Ohio (1918) (1912)
Louis Sullivan – Sullivan Centre, Illinois Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
(1912)
64
Oscar Niemeyer
The HSBC Building in Hong Kong Museum in Niterói, Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil National Congress building
Brasília, Brazil
65
Pietro Belluschi
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters
Institute in Utica, New York (1960) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the MetLife Building
Assumption in San Francisco Skyscraper in New York City, New York
66
Adolf Loos
American Bar, Vienna Looshaus
Michaelerplatz, Vienna
Maison Tzara, Paris Scheu House, Vienna
67
Albert Kahn
Kales Building, Detroit Temple Beth-El, Detroit
The Palms Apartments, Detroit The Qube, Detroit
68
Albert Speer
Fuhrerbunker Olympiastadion Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Neue Reichskanzlei Padiglione della Germania all'Esposizione
universale di Parigi del 1937
69
Aldo Rossi
Monte Amiata Housing, Milan Monumental Fountain, Segrate
Ossuary and the Cemetery of San Cataldo Scholastic Corporation Headquarters, New
York
70
Alvar Aalto
Aalto Center, Seinajoki Aalto Theatre, Essen
Aalto-Hochhaus, Bremen Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
71
Andrea Palladio
Il Redentore, Giudecca Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza Villa Capra, Vicenza
72
Bruno Taut
Faculty of Languages, History and Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin
Geography, Ankara University
Onkel-Toms-Hütte, Wilskistrasse, Berlin Red Front Building, Berlin
73
Buckminster Fuller
Dymaxion House Montreal Biosphere
Science World Calico Dome
Vancouver, Canada
74
Carlo Scarpa
Brion Tomb and Sanctuary, Italy Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Gallerie dell’Accademia Renovation, Venice Ottolenghi House, Bardolino
75
César Pelli
30 Hudson Street, Jersey City Cira Centre, Philadelphia
Connecticut Science Center, Hartford One Canada Square, Canary Wharf
76
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Glasgow School of Art Hill House, Helensburgh
House for an Art Lover Martyrs’ Public School
77
Christopher Wren
Christ Church, Oxford St James Piccadilly
St Clement Danes London Royal Hospital Chelsea
78
Donato Bramante
San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Italy Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan, Italy
79
Fernando Romero
G-20 Convention Center, Los Cabos Louis Vuitton Foundation
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City New Mexico City International Airport
80
Filippo Brunelleschi
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Florence
Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence Pazzi Chapel, Florence
81
Frederick Law Olmsted
the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina
1893 World's Columbian Exposition in grounds of New York City's Central Park
Chicago
82
Frei Otto
German Pavilion, Expo 67 Multihalle, Mannheim
Roof for Olympic Stadium, Munich Tuwaiq Palace, Saudi Arabia
83
Gae Aulenti
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Orsay Museum, Paris
Torino Palavela Piazzale Cadorna in Milan
Turin, Italy
84
Gerrit Rietveld
Interior of the Van Gogh Museum, Metz & Co., The Hague
Amsterdam
Muziekschool, Zeist Rietveld Schröder House
85
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Chair of Saint Peter Church of Saint Andrew’s, Quirinal
Palazzo Barberini, Rome Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome
86
Glenn Murcutt
Laurie Short House, Sydney Marie Short House, Kempsey
Berowra Waters Inn, Berowra Waters Ball-Eastaway House, Glenorie, Sydney
87
Hafeez Contractor
ICICI Headquarters-Hyderabad One Indiabulls Center
SDB 4- Mysore Manipal University Jaipur
88
Hector Guimard
Castel Béranger, Paris Castel d’Orgeval
Coilliot House, Lille Hôtel Mezzara, Paris
89
Henning Larsen
Batumi Aquarium Central Bank of Libya
Copenhagen Opera House Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland
90
Inigo Jones
Banqueting House, Whitehall Gateway from Oatlands
Queen’s Chapel Queen’s House
91
John Pawson
Hotel Puerta America, Madrid (2005) Medina House in Tunis
The Sackler Crossing, a walkway over the lake Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sept-Fons, Czech
at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Republic (2004)
92
Jørn Utzon
Bagsværd Church, Copenhagen Elineberg Housing, Helsingborg, Sweden
Kingo Houses, Helsingør, Denmark Kuwait National Assembly Building
93
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Alexander Nevsky chapel, Peterhof, Schinkel Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church,
Brandburg, Germany
Berlin – Friedrichswerdersche Kirche Konzerthaus, Berlin
94
Kazuyo Sejima
House in a Plum Grove, Tokyo, Japan Kiro-San observatory
Louvre-Lens, France M2 building
95
Kengo Kuma
Doric building, Minato-ku, Tokyo Garden Terrace Hotel, Nagasaki
LVMH Group Japan headquarters, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, China
Osaka
96
Luis Barragan
Casa Luis Barragán Torres De Satélite
Naucalpan, Mexico
Faro del Comercio Monterrey, Mexico Las Arboledas / North of Mexico City
97
Mario Botta
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Casinò di Campione
Harting Technologiegruppe Headquaters, La Fortezza building, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Minden
98
Peter Eisenman
City of Culture of Galicia Cloud Rock Wilderness Lodge
Greater Columbus Convention Center Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
99
Richard Neutra
Auerbacher Home, Redlands, California Constance Perkins House, Pasadena, California
Emerson Community Charter School, Los Jardinette Apartments. Los Angeles, California
Angeles, California
100
Ricardo Bofill
Miguel Delibes Cultural Center, Spain Platinum Tower, Beirut
Sandra Day O’Connor United States Shepherd School Of Music, Houston, Texas
Courthouse, Phoenix, Arizona
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