Flavin Architects Included in Forbes Top 200 Residential Architects

“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is beautiful.’ That is Architecture. Art enters in.” —Le Corbusier (1887–1965)

Forbes Magazine debuted its inaugural list of America’s Top 200 Residential Architects. Inclusive of all 50 states plus the District of Columbia in research and formal evaluation, the list identifies and calls attention to single-family-house designers whose work, “stands apart for its elevated degree of overall excellence.” According to Forbes’s methodology for selection, more than 18,000 firms were evaluated for the list, then more than 750 were invited to submit up to three houses, each completed in 2019 or later, for formal consideration. The final 200 projects were collectively deemed to most closely meet the evaluating criteria.

We are honored to have been included in the Forbes Magazine list of America’s Top 200 Residential Architects. Forbes selected Flavin Architects because of our natural modern approach to architecture and our respect for siting and local context.

Above: The Cliff House project in Marblehead, MA. Photo by Millicent Harvey.