[Tom Servo]

Every quarter the German architecture portal baunetz.de ranks the hottest 100 architecture firms. The ranking is based on the number of publications in the past 24 months from the top architectural magazines (Bauwelt, Detail, Architectural Review, a+u, architektur.aktuell, L’architecture d’aujourd’hui, Werk Bauen und Wohnen, domus, and so on). The ranking has no direct relationship with quality and is not a ranking of the firms actual work. It is merely a ranking of the world's most popular offices and is a great guide for those searching for the most star of the star-architects. Does it matter? Not really. But who doesn't love rankings?

The third quarter ranking of the top 100 architecture offices:
RANK / SCORE / FIRM / LOCATION
01 / 306 / Herzog und de Meuron / Basel
02 / 289 / Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rotterdam
03 / 227 / Steven Holl Architects / New York
04 / 214 / SANAA / Tokyo
05 / 213 / Zaha Hadid / London
06 / 197 / UN Studio / Amsterdam
07 / 179 / Jean Nouvel / Paris
08 / 171 / Foster and Partners / London
09 / 128 / MVRDV / Rotterdam
10 / 125 / David Chipperfield Architects / London
11 / 123 / Toyo Ito / Tokyo
12 / 112 / Zumthor, Peter / Haldenstein
13 / 105 / Gigon / Guyer Architekten / Zurich
14 / 090 / Alvaro Siza / Oporto
14 / 090 / Peter Märkli / Zurich
16 / 084 / Diller Scofidio + Renfro / New York
17 / 083 / Kengo Kuma / Tokyo
18 / 077 / Atelier Kempe Thill / Rotterdam
18 / 077 / Daniel Libeskind / New York
20 / 074 / Paulo David Arquitecto / Funchal
21 / 072 / Anne Lacaton + Jean Philippe Vassal / Paris
21 / 072 / Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch / Saarbrücken
23 / 071 / Renzo Piano / Genoa
24 / 068 / Future Systems / London
25 / 067 / Krischanitz, Adolf / Vienna

http://www.baunetz.de/ranking/?area=...pe=int&lang=en