Well this one took me sometime to compile, but its here nevertheless…
Facebook has been a source of networking and “liking” people and their works. Heck even dead bods like janis joplin and Amy Winehouse have fan pages..
Here’s a ranking of architectural offices and their fans on facebook. What do you think are the factors for this popularity?
Do you think maybe it’s people that respect and admire these architects, and it’s reflected on their fan pages? Or is it that they have a hell amount of people working in their offices? Or perhaps that the areas they live in are quite net savvy.? I just can’t make head-no-tail of it. Since Jørn Utzon has just 230 likes while Schlaich has about 50… including me… 🙁
Amazing thing is that brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is on the top of the list. Do you think that at 103 years he knows he is the world leader in architects facebook fans?
Complete ranking, links and their fans:
- ALT arquitectura + obra / 508k ()
- Oscar Niemeyer / 361k ()
- Zaha Hadid / 291k ()
- Renzo Piano / 193k ()
- Santiago Calatrava / 192k ()
- Tadao Ando / 73k ()
- A-cero (Joaquín Torres) / 67k ()
- Peter Zumthor / 57k ()
- Herzog & de Meuron / 50k ()
- Jean Nouvel / 43k ()
- OMA – Rem Koolhaas / 39k ()
- Bunker Arquitectura / 29k ()
- SANAA – Sejima Nishizawa / 27k ()
- Toyo Ito / 21k ()
- BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group / 18k ()
- Peter Eisenman / 13k ()
- Richard Rogers / 13k ()
- Daniel Libeskind / 11k ()
- Alvaro Siza / 9k ()
- Norman Foster / 8k ()