Below are the 50 firms that did the best in our rankings according to the awards they have won for their design and their commitment to pro bono work.
| 2012 Architect 50: Design Excellence/Pro Bono Rankings |
|---|
| Rank | Firm Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Skidmore Owings & Merrill New York |
| 2 | Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (ZGF) Portland, Ore. |
| 3 | BNIM Kansas City |
| 4 | HOK St. Louis |
| 5 | DLR Group Omaha, Neb. |
| 6 | Perkins+Will Chicago |
| 7 | AECOM Los Angeles |
| 8 | Cannon Design Grand Island, N.Y. |
| 9 | HDR Architecture Omaha, Neb. |
| 10 | SmithGroupJJR Detroit |
| 11 | Polk Stanley Wilcox Little Rock, Ark. |
| 12 | Frank Harmon Architect Raleigh, N.C. |
| 13 | Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) New York |
| 14 | Centerbrook Architects and Planners Centerbrook, Conn. |
| 15 | Eskew+Dumez+Ripple New Orleans |
| 16 | Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects San Francisco |
| 17 | Little Diversified Architectural Consulting Charlotte, N.C. |
| 18 | Sasaki Associates Watertown, Mass. |
| 19 | Lord Aeck & Sargent Atlanta |
| 20 | Gresham, Smith and Partners Nashville, Tenn. |
| 21 | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects New York |
| 22 | HGA Architects and Engineers Minneapolis |
| 23 | Hord Coplan Macht Baltimore, Md. |
| 24 | Julie Snow Architects Minneapolis |
| 25 | EYP Architecture & Engineering Albany, N.Y. |
| 26 | Ross Barney Architects Chicago |
| 27 | Westlake Reed Leskosky Cleveland |
| 28 | LMN Architects Seattle |
| 29 | Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects Berkeley, Calif. |
| 30 | Richärd+Bauer Phoenix |
| 31 | Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects San Francisco |
| 32 | Gruzen Samton/ IBI Group New York |
| 33 | NBBJ Seattle |
| 34 | The Miller Hull Partnership Seattle |
| 35 | The S/L/A/M Collaborative Glastonbury, Conn. |
| 36 | LPA Irvine, Calif. |
| 37 | NAC | Architecture Seattle, Wash. |
| 38 | Tate Snyder Kimsey Las Vegas |
| 39 | HKS Architects Dallas |
| 40 | SCALEStudio + SCALEAfrica New York |
| 41 | Payette Boston |
| 42 | Ann Beha Architects Boston |
| 43 | Ratcliff Architects Emeryville, Calif. |
| 44 | Leo A Daly Omaha, Neb. |
| 45 | John Ronan Architects Chicago |
| 46 | RNL Denver |
| 47 | Studio H:T Boulder, Colo. |
| 48 | Helix Architecture + Design Kansas City |
| 49 | Studios Architecture Washington, D.C. |
| 50 | GBBN Architects Cincinnati, Ohio |
To read the rest of our 2012 ARCHITECT 50 coverage, click here.
