AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects and Designers of 2026

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AN Interior’s Top 50 Architects and Designers list celebrates the most interesting architects and design firms producing interiors in North America. Now in its ninth year, this collection, researched by AN Interior’s editors and based on their coverage, surveys the studios actively rethinking and advancing the field. From younger, smaller firms (some with just two employees) to established studios 80 strong, these are names to know.

(Courtesy Noua Una Studio)

22RE

Los Angeles

22RE is a multidisciplinary architecture and design practice founded by Dean Levin, creating refined interiors and furniture rooted in craft, materiality, and global influences.

(Meaghan Peckham Photography)

The Municipal Grand Hotel by AAmp (Brook Holm)

AAmp

Toronto; Portland, Maine

Founded by Anne-Marie Armstrong and Andrew Ashey, AAmp is an architecture and interiors studio creating enduring spaces through stewardship, clarity, collaboration, and deep contextual engagement.

(Adam Rouse)

Robert Mondavi Winery by Aidlin Darling Design (Adam Rouse)

Aidlin Darling Design

San Francisco; Pittsburgh

Aidlin Darling Design was founded in 1998 with the conviction that architecture can meaningfully impact the human spirit to inspire, educate, and deepen our connections.

(Courtesy Anya Moryoussef Architect)

Smoke Lake by Anya Moryoussef Architect (Felix Michaud)

Anya Moryoussef Architect

Toronto

An award-winning architecture and interiors practice, Anya Moryoussef Architect pursues empathetic adaptation and resilient new construction, reinterpreting found forms and conventions in search of emotion.

(Charlie Lesmarois)

(Charlie Lesmarois)

Appareil Architecture

Montreal

Appareil Architecture is a transdisciplinary firm dedicated to creating functional and timeless spaces that celebrate the land, cultivate communal well-being, and embrace the city’s Nordic climate.

(Courtesy Matthew Bremer)

Phillipsport NY Church House by Architecture in Formation (Michelle Rose)

Architecture in Formation

New York

Under Matthew Bremer, Architecture in Formation creates boldly transformative cultural environments, economically aligned communities, and bespoke residences with restraint and whimsy for place and planet.

(Elizabeth Carababas)

Mouthwash Studio HQ by Aunt Studio (Rich Stapleton)

Aunt Studio

Los Angeles

Noam Saragosti and Juhee Park cofounded their multidisciplinary practice, Aunt Studio, to create grounded, purposeful spaces through research, dialogue, and craft for buildings, interiors, and furniture.

(Flaminia Fanale)

AvroKO

Multiple Locations

Founded by Kristina O’Neal, Adam Farmerie, William Harris, and Greg Bradshaw, AvroKO has shaped hospitality design through its integrated process and focus on creating emotionally connected experiences.

(Joshua White)

Baldwin Hills House by Bestor Architecture (Chris Mottalini)

Bestor Architecture

Los Angeles

Bestor Architecture is recognized for inventive integration of architecture, urbanism, infrastructure, and landscape. The varied and progressive work expands the territory of architecture into atmospheric urbanism.

(Ty Cole)

Home in Washington, D.C. by BLDUS (Jennifer Hughes)

BLDUS

Washington, D.C.

Founded in 2013 by Jack Becker and Andrew Linn, BLDUS makes architecture that connects past with future, modernity with tradition, and humanity with the natural world.

(Courtesy Breland-Harper)

Scottland Street by Breland-Harper (Justin Chung)

Breland-Harper

Michael Breland is the founder and principal of Breland–Harper, a Los Angeles multidisciplinary studio that integrates architecture, interiors, and landscape through thoughtful, site-responsive, enduring design.

(Christopher Sturman)

Millerton House by Brent Buck Architects (Christopher Sturman)

Brent Buck Architects

New York

Brent Buck Architects is a full-service architecture and interiors practice working throughout the U.S. on projects of multiple scales—from furniture to multifamily buildings.

 

(David Powers)

El Segundo Office by Charlap Hyman & Herrero (Sean Davidson)

Charlap Hyman & Herrero

Multiple Locations

Charlap Hyman & Herrero is an architecture and design firm that takes a fully integrated approach to conceptualizing and executing spaces in their totality across scales.

(Travis Bass)

Vast by CIVILIAN (Erik Stackpole Undehn)

CIVILIAN

New York

CIVILIAN is an architecture and interior design studio founded by Nicko Elliott and Ksenia Kagner. It works with companies, cultural institutions, and innovators shaping culture and science.

(Donilee McGinnis)

A residential project by CO Adaptive (Naho Kubota)

CO Adaptive

New York

Founded by Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston in 2011, CO Adaptive is an unbuild-design-build practice focused on reducing embodied and operational carbon through adaptive reuse and retrofits.

(Steven Kent Johnson)

Sea Ranch by Commune (Steven Kent Johnson)

Commune

Los Angeles

Commune is a design studio with a reputation for holistic work across architecture, interior, and graphic and product design, led by principals Roman Alonso and Steven Johanknecht.

(Shane Hauser)

D’Arcy Jones Architects

Vancouver, Canada

Since 1999, D’Arcy Jones Architects has crafted rational, conceptual projects rooted in place and shaped by time, drawing inspiration from historic buildings and contemporary life.

(Courtesy DUST)

DUST

Tuscon, Arizona

DUST is an award-winning architecture studio whose work is shaped by landscape, climate, material, and craft, paying close attention to how people inhabit places.

(Natasha Sadikin)

Figure

San Francisco

Figure, an architecture studio founded by James Leng and Jennifer Ly, crafts bespoke, award-winning designs rooted in inquiry, collaboration, and community and expresses subtlety and generosity.

(Courtesy Fox Fox Studio)

Fox Fox Studio

Austin; New York

Fox Fox Studio is an architecture and interior design studio founded by husband and wife Will and Alice Fox, who bring an art sensibility and conceptual narrative to spaces.

 

(Britney Townsend)

Othership Flatiron by Futurestudio (Ian Patterson)

Futurestudio

Toronto

Driven by a vision that balances contemporary aesthetics with enduring relevance, Futurestudio aims to redefine how interiors can adapt to the future while remaining timeless.

(Patricia Hirschfeld)

GOMA

Mexico City; Querétaro, Mexico

GOMA is an architecture studio with a multidisciplinary team that respects context and the preexisting built environment, shaping interiors with simplicity, natural light, and materials that gain depth.

(Adrian Gaut)

Zoli by GRT Architects (Rafael Gamo)

GRT Architects

New York; Mexico City

Tal Schori and Rus Mehta lead GRT, working across a range of typologies—cultural, commercial, hospitality, residential, and more—marrying voiced aesthetics with technical excellence.

(Christopher Garcia Valle)

INC

New York

INC works at the intersection of architecture, interiors, and object design, cultivating a communal studio culture grounded in joy, utility, craft, and creating places of belonging.

(Alex Lesage)

Minnibar by Ivy Studio (Alex Lesage)

Ivy Studio

Montreal

Ivy Studio is a boutique architecture firm creating highly personalized commercial interiors, blending architecture, interiors, furniture, and material exploration into distinctive, immersive spatial experiences.

(Chris Behroozian)

Johnston Marklee

Los Angeles

Johnston Marklee is an architecture firm established by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee and recognized for its engagement with arts, culture, and the foundations of the discipline.

(Nin Solis)

Volga by JSa (Rafael Gamo)

JSa

Mexico City

Since 1996, JSa has transformed Mexico City’s urban fabric through research-driven architecture, growing into an award-winning international practice with 190- plus projects across the Americas and Europe.

 

(Courtesy Klein)

Armadillo New York Showroom by Klein (Adrian Gaut)

Klein

Los Angeles

Klein is a design studio led by Maša and Jon Kleinhample that works across furniture, interiors, and architecture and is grounded in material integrity and a thoughtful approach.

(HaasHaas)

School of the Art Institute of Chicago lobby by Kwong Von Glinow (Mikael Olsson)

Kwong Von Glinow

Chicago

Kwong Von Glinow is an architecture practice grounded in clear ideas, careful observation, and optimism, creating simple, purposeful, and transformative solutions across projects and scales.

(Alan Karen)

Lielle by Lovers Unite (Kort Havens)

Lovers Unite

Los Angeles

Lovers Unite is an architecture and interiors studio led by Karen Spector and Alan Koch, designing sensuous, moodenhancing spaces for hospitality, homes, and fire rebuilds.

(Courtesy Marsollier Villacourta)

The Altar by Marsollier Villacorta (Stuart Winecoff)

Marsollier Villacorta

Mexico City; New York

Marsollier Villacorta is an architectural studio designing enduring spaces that emphasize the presence and significance of materials, contextual specificity, and the fundamentals of craft.

(Courtesy Modellus Novus)

Modellus Novus

New York

Modellus Novus—its name is Latin for “new model”—is an architecture and design firm whose work captures and transforms client ambitions into projects that shape legacies

(Helga Hansen)

Accord Studio by Neil Logan, Architect (Mikael Olsson)

Neil Logan, Architect

New York

Neil Logan founded his New York architecture practice in 1994 and works across architecture, interiors, and spaces for living and making.

(Courtesy Odami)

Odami

Toronto

Odami is an award-winning studio driven by productive tensions between unexpected ideas and perspectives: the convergence of the pragmatic and expressive, the familiar and the unexpected.

(Courtesy Of Possible)

The Findling by Of Possible (Rory Gardiner)

Of Possible

New York

Of Possible is a creative practice led by Vincent Appel working across spheres of architecture, design, interiors, urbanism, furniture, sculpture, and largescale public art.

(Claire Esparros)

Car Part Time by Office of Tangible Space (Claire Esparros)

Office of Tangible Space

New York; San Francisco

Founded by Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti, Office of Tangible Space works across architecture, interiors, furniture, and curation, creating experiences of culture, play, and connection.

(Vanessa Heins)

Omar Gandhi Architects

Multiple Locations

Omar Gandhi Architects, founded in 2010, is a small, thoughtful practice dedicated to crafting contextually rich, distinctive architecture rooted in place, material, and landscape.

(Courtesy Ome Dezin)

Colony by Ome Dezin (Austin Leis)

Ome Dezin

Los Angeles

Ome Dezin was founded in 2020 by Joelle Kutner and Jesse Rudolph as a design-build studio that restores character-driven homes throughout Los Angeles and nationwide.

 

(Fahim Kassam)

Bocci installation at Milan Design Week (Joe Kramm)

Omer Arbel Office

Vancouver, Canada

Omer Arbel is the cofounder and creative director of Bocci and founder of Omer Arbel Office (OAO). Its work is rooted in sustained investigation into materials.

(Courtesy ONO)

ONO

San Francisco

Tyler Noblin and Max Obata founded their office in 2020. Together they combine a language of warmth and formal restraint in projects across the U.S.

(Weston Wells)

Peterson Rich Office

New York

The firm is known for adaptive reuse and cultural projects, including the Condé M. Nast Galleries at The Met, and the forthcoming Arts of Africa Galleries at Brooklyn Museum.

 

(Courtesy MCLN Studio)

Project by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (Luis Garvan)

Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

Mexico City

Founded by Pablo Pérez Palacios, this architecture practice works across architecture, interiors, art, and urbanism, exploring the built and unbuilt and inspired by nature, context, and materiality.

(Anna Morgowicz)

Lore Bathing Club by Ringo Studio (Sean Davidson)

Ringo Studio

New York

Ringo Studio is a design practice building immersive retail and wellness interiors through bold visions and sensorial design, translating brand identity into physical experiences.

(Arturo Arrieta)

Omasake Bar by Sala Hars (Courtesy 11h45)

Sala Hars

Mexico City

Founded by Juan Sala and Douglas Harsevoort, Sala Hars believes deeply in architecture as cultural production and in being evolutionary and revolutionary at once.

(Courtesy Troy Schaum)

Camaraderie by SCHAUM Architects (Leonid Furmansky)

SCHAUM Architects

Houston

Troy Schaum is the principal of SCHAUM Architects, which considers the city at the scale of the building—as theoretical experimentation and as a reality that may be transformed.

(Trevor Brady)

Meo by Ste Marie (Conrad Brown)

Ste Marie

Vancouver, Canada

Ste Marie imagines and creates hospitality and mixed-use spaces that distill place, purpose, and human experience into emotionally resonant and unconventional environments.

(Courtesy STRANG)

STRANG

Miami; Winter Haven, Florida

Founded in 1998, STRANG believes in the enduring intrigue of modernism. As a highly creative team of designers, it is committed to meaningful collaborations with clients.

(Courtesy Walker Warner)

Walker Warner

San Francisco

Walker Warner is a full-service architecture firm specializing in residential and hospitality design whose work is grounded in sensitivity to client and place.

(Courtesy Williamson Williamson)

Williamson Williamson

Toronto

Williamson Williamson is an internationally recognized architecture practice centered on residential, institutional, and commercial work that is defined by precision, craft, and design excellence.

(Courtesy Worrell Yeung)

A project by Worrell Yeung (Naho Kubota)

Worrell Yeung

New York

Worrell Yeung is an architecture practice that creates enduring work united by simplicity, a product born from rigorous analysis and an inventive design process.


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