America's Favorite Architecture
"America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States.
In 2006 and 2007, the
In the first phase of the study, 2,448 AIA members were interviewed and asked to identify their "favorite"
As part of the commemoration of the organization's 150th
has 16 structures on the list.The 150 top-ranked structures are listed below.[3]
List of "America's Favorites"
Criticisms
When it was released, critics observed that the list of "favorites" did not reflect the judgments of architectural “experts”. Upon the list's release, AIA president R.K. Stewart acknowledged that the rankings did not represent architects' professional judgments, but instead reflected people's "emotional connections" to buildings.
Structures ranked below the top 150
The 98 buildings that were listed by architects as significant, but did not rank in the top 150 in the public vote, were:[4]
- 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments – Chicago, Illinois
- American Folk Art Museum – New York City
- Art & Architecture Building – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Baker House – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Beinecke Rare Book Library– Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Beth Sholom Synagogue – Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
- Boston City Hall – Boston, Massachusetts
- Bradbury Building – Los Angeles, California
- Burton Barr Library– Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix, Arizona
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts – Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels – Los Angeles
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption– San Francisco
- CBS Headquarters/ Black Rock – New York City
- Yale Center for British Art/Museum of British Art – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Chapel/W15 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Chapel of St. Ignatius – Seattle University, Seattle
- Crown Hall – Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago
- Dallas City Hall – Dallas, Texas
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport– Dallas, Texas
- M. H. de Young Memorial Museum– San Francisco
- Denver Art Museum – Denver, Colorado
- Denver Public Library – Denver, Colorado
- Eames House – Pacific Palisades, California
- Ennis House/Ennis-Brown House – Los Angeles
- Esherick House– Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
- Experience Music Project– Seattle
- Farnsworth House – Plano, Illinois
- First Christian Church – Columbus, Indiana
- First Church of Christ Scientist – Berkeley, California
- First Unitarian Church of Rochester – Rochester, New York
- Ford Foundation Building– New York City
- Frank Gehry Residence – Santa Monica, California
- Freer Gallery of Art – Washington, DC
- Genzyme Center – Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Gropius House – Lincoln, Massachusetts
- Guaranty Building – Buffalo, New York
- Horton Plaza– San Diego
- IBM Building – Chicago
- Inland Steel Building – Chicago
- Jacobs Field– Cleveland, Ohio
- John Deere World Headquarters – Moline, Illinois
- John Hancock Center – Chicago
- Johnson Wax Building– Racine, Wisconsin
- Kaufmann Desert House – Palm Springs, California
- Kimbell Art Museum – Fort Worth, Texas
- Kings Road House – West Hollywood, California
- Larkin Administration Building – Buffalo, New York
- Lever House – New York City
- Lovell Beach House – Newport Beach, California
- R. H. Macy and Company Store (building)– New York City
- Marin County Civic Center – San Rafael, California
- Marshall Field and Company Building – Chicago
- Menil Collection – Houston, Texas
- Minneapolis Central Library – Minneapolis
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas
- Monadnock Building – Chicago
- Morgan Library& Museum – New York City
- Mount Angel Library – Mount Angel, Oregon
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Nasher Sculpture Center – Dallas
- National Gallery of Art (East Wing) – Washington, DC
- North Christian Church – Columbus, Indiana
- Oakland Museum of California – Oakland, California
- O'Hare International Airport – Chicago
- Peabody Terrace – Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Petco Park (San Diego Padres) – San Diego
- Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building/PSFS – Philadelphia
- Philip Johnson's Glass House – New Canaan, Connecticut
- Prada – Los Angeles
- Prada – 575 Broadway, New York City
- Price Tower – Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- Rachofsky House – Dallas, Texas
- REI Flagship Store, Seattle
- Reliance Building – Chicago
- Richards Medical Research Laboratories – Philadelphia
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport – Arlington, Virginia
- Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art– Cincinnati
- Salk Institute– La Jolla, California
- San Francisco Public Library – San Francisco
- Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse – Phoenix, Arizona
- Seagram's Building– New York City
- Frederick J. Smith House – Darien, Connecticut
- Soldier Field – Chicago
- Sony Plaza(AT&T Corporate Headquarters) – New York City
- Staples Center– Los Angeles
- Superdome– New Orleans
- Tiffany and Company Building – New York City
- Unity Temple – Oak Park, Illinois
- University of Phoenix Stadium(Arizona Cardinals Stadium) – Glendale, Arizona
- Vanna Venturi House – Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania
- Wainwright Building – St. Louis, Missouri
- Washington Dulles International Airport– Chantilly, Virginia
- Wexner Center for the Arts – Ohio State University – Columbus, Ohio
- Whitney Museum – New York City
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library– Little Rock, Arkansas
See also
References
- ^ a b American Institute of Architects, "About this Exhibit", FavoriteArchitecture.org website Archived May 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b American Institute of Architects Releases Poll Showing "America's Favorite Architecture" Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Building Online, March 15, 2007
- ^ American Institute of Architects, FavoriteArchitecture.org website Archived March 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d John King, When it comes to the tops in architecture, it's all about how it makes people feel, San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2007
- ^ Alex Frangos, Americans' Favorite Buildings, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2007
External links
- FavoriteArchitecture.org (Flash-based interactive photo exhibit of the listed buildings)
- AIA 150, NPR.org (text-based list)
- Americans' Favorite Buildings, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2007 (illustrated sortable list)
- America's Favorite Architecture on AIA Archiblog