Studio MA/AR Competitors

Sordo Madaleno is a third-generation Mexican architecture studio, founded in 1937, now working between Mexico City and London. We practice architecture as generosity—shaping spaces where terrain, tradition, and memory thrive together. Our process is rigorous and iterative, guided by deep study rather than fixed style. From hospitality to culture and civic space, we design at human scale with materials that carry meaning, creating environments that feel rooted, welcoming, and generationally enduring.

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) is an international architectural practice based in London. Over three decades, RSHP has attracted critical acclaim and awards with built projects across Europe, North America and Asia. The practice is experienced in designing a wide range of building types including: office, residential, transport, education, culture, leisure, retail, civic and healthcare and the quality of these designs has been recognised with some of architecture’s highest awards, including RIBA Stirling Prizes for Terminal 4, Madrid Barajas Airport and Maggie’s London. The practice employs around 200 people, including 13 Partners, 13 Associate Partners and 54 Associates, in offices across the world – London, Shanghai and Sydney. A ‘Think Tank’ philosophy is employed at every level, to enable design and management leaders to collaborate and contribute their individual expertise. Weekly meetings, open to all employees, provide a vital forum for discussion of current competitions and ongoing projects, as well as a platform for creativity and new solutions appropriate to each design. This ‘collegiate’ approach to the work of the practice is embodied in a constitution that consciously brings a moral dimension to our work and takes the form of, among other initiatives, a staff profit-sharing scheme and significant contributions to charity, with staff members nominating the charities of their choice. To reflect the growing importance of two of the younger Partners, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour, and their role alongside Richard Rogers in the practice’s future, Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007. Together with other long-standing Partners, Stirk and Harbour represent the inherent continuity and consistency of the philosophy which the practice applies to all its work. For more information on the work of the practice please visit our website: http://rsh-p.com

Bunker Arquitectura is a Mexico City-based architecture, urbanism and research office founded by Esteban Suarez in 2005. In their short career they have been able to experience and experiment architecture in the broadest scale possible: from small iconic chapels for private clients to a master plan for an entire city. Bunker ultimately believes in giving unique and outside the box solutions to specific problems, leaving behind the quest for a personal style or branded architecture.