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

101