With the integration of digital connectivity in our daily lives, some say that facebook is the ultimate measure of success of an architect since fans ‘like’ their pages on a voluntary basis and it indicates a general consent towards the work of that architect.
This measure of success may not be entirely accurate, however it certainly does pass a message of some kind.
Below is the list of architects ranked by their facebook page ‘likes’:
1. Oscar Niemeyer – 286,617
2. Zaha Hadid – 268,256
3. Santiago Calatrava – 179,995
4. Renzo Piano - 177,198
5. Tadao Ando – 67,042
6. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – 66,538
7. Peter Zumthor – 55,312
8. Herzog & de Meuron – 44,202
9. Jean Nouvel – 39,166
10. OMA, Rem Koolhaas – 34,225
11. SANAA – 24,104
12. Frank Lloyd Wright – 23,165
13. Norman Foster – 19,259
14. Toyo Ito – 19,043
15. BIG – 17,035
16. Le Corbusier – 15,108
17. Frank Gehry – 13,473
18. Alvaro Siza – 12,999
19. Peter Eisenman – 11,453
20. Steven Holl – 11,325
21. Richard Rogers – 11,063
22. Louis Kahn – 10,913
23. Daniel Libeskind – 10,766
24. Thom Mayne – 9,206
25. UN studio – 6,251
26. Richard Meier – 5,837
27. Sou Fujimoto – 5,226
28. Eero Saarinen – 4,907
29. Eduardo Souto de Moura – 4,531
30. Jørn Utzon – 3,395
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