Ranging from living legends to young talents who are already having an impact on the market: Architonic’s new Top 200 Designers ranking foregrounds the most popular designers and architects that users of architonic.com have actively searched for over the course of 2015.

The ranking results are not influenced by the number of product views on Architonic. The presentation is based solely on the number of relevant search queries entered into architonic.com's text-search field. Some designers' names are also perceived as brand names, such is the level of their recognition.

Side note: The ranking was published on the day the world renowned architect Zaha Hadid has suddenly died. We have decided to keep her in the listing.

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Our methodology
This presentation is based on traffic information collected on architonic.com. All statistics and rankings shown in this article are based on the number of relevant search queries entered in the text search field on architonic.com (‘by text search’).