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GAD / GLOBAL 1000

Global 1000 Architecture Practices

A source-backed editorial selection: architecture practices, public business contacts and representative works.

1000complete selected profiles
66countries & regions
1000collection target

The 1000-profile edition is available. Contact routes and project sources are dated; availability can change. Numbers are coverage, not worldwide quality ranks.

1000 selected practicesHow we select
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Brazil

Studio Arthur Casas

Studio Arthur Casas: an architectural practice based in São Paulo, Brazil. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

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Serbia

Studio AUTORI

Studio AUTORI: an architectural practice based in Belgrade, Serbia. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

Studio Brambilla Orsoni

Studio Brambilla Orsoni: an architectural practice based in Como, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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United States

Studio Cadena

Studio Cadena: an architectural practice based in Brooklyn, United States. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

Studio DiDeA

Studio DiDeA: an architectural practice based in Palermo, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

Studio Fabio Novembre

Studio Fabio Novembre: an architectural practice based in Milano, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Netherlands

Studio Formafantasma

Studio Formafantasma: an architectural practice based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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United States

Studio Gang

Study Studio Gang through Writers Theatre and the Arcus Center, where circulation, shared rooms and material choices give civic interaction a spatial form.

CulturalResidentialPublic space
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South Korea

Studio in Loco

Studio in Loco: an architectural practice based in Seoul, Korea, Republic of. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Indonesia

Studio Kota

Studio Kota: an architectural practice based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Germany

Studio Mark Randel

Studio Mark Randel: an architectural practice based in Berlin, Germany. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Switzerland

Studio Montemurro Aguiar

Studio Montemurro Aguiar: an architectural practice based in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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France

Studio Odile Decq

Studio Odile Decq: an architectural practice based in Paris, France. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Belgium

Studio Okami Architects

Studio Okami Architects: an architectural practice based in Antwerp, Belgium. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Japan

studio on site

studio on site: an architectural practice based in Tokyo, Japan. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Netherlands

studio PROTOTYPE

studio PROTOTYPE: an architectural practice based in amsterdam, Netherlands. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

studio raro

studio raro: an architectural practice based in Trento, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

studio tamassociati

studio tamassociati: an architectural practice based in Venezia, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Singapore

Studio Wills + Architects

Studio Wills + Architects: an architectural practice based in Singapore, Singapore. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture
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Italy

studio wok

studio wok: an architectural practice based in Milano, Italy. Explore credited works and public business contact routes.

Architecture

Selection, not a universal league table

We combine established international practices with regional and specialist contributors. Each record must identify the practice, show attributed architecture, provide a public business contact and explain its documentary basis. Award winners, finalists and nominees retain their exact programme, category and year; nomination is not winning.

A curated architecture publication can evidence a practice’s project contribution; it does not prove that the practice is better than every firm outside this collection. Institution membership, headcount and profile count alone are not design-quality scores. The page order is alphabetical, and this selection is separate from WA100 and GAD’s scored ranking studies.

Advertising and sponsorship do not purchase inclusion or editorial position. Business emails and phones are published contact routes, not promises of a reply. Project photographs and full original credit lists remain at the linked source unless separately licensed.

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