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WA100 2020: The action moves to China and the US
With employment at the world’s biggest architects static, they seem to be battening down the hatches. But there are exceptions, writes Thomas Lane
This year’s WA100 survey is perhaps most striking for the fact that the overall headcount of the world’s top architectural practices has barely moved. The top 100 firms lost 510 architects from last year’s total tally of 37,787 – a decrease of just 1.3%. The ten largest firms have generally expanded more than the smaller practices but this year the top ten added just seven architects – an increase of 0.05%.
Compare this to last year, when the architects employed by the top 100 leapt by 6.45% to the highest level ever recorded by our survey, and the top ten swelled by 7.29%.
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