AIANH Member firm Scully Architects recognized on the 2025 Forbes list - America’s Top 200 Residential Architects
Congratulations to Scully Architects for making the 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 call attention to those single-family-house designers whose work, region to region and state to state, stands apart for its elevated degree of overall excellence.
Quite simply, we’ve arrived at a moment when we can no longer afford to overlook the critical importance of the role of the architect in society, particularly in relation to our houses. America’s Top 200 Residential Architects will be, if nothing else, a point of entry to that recognition—a world of enlightened strategies for living and for housing ourselves more intelligently. More specifically, America’s Top 200 Residential Architects will point to the architects to whom you can turn, no matter where you are across the nation, to help you create a house that meets both your personal demands and the outsized existential demands of our times.
Over a three stage process, 18,000 firms received initial evaluation, with 750 invited to advance to the next stage and submit up to three houses, each completed in 2019 or later, for formal consideration.
Tier 1: General Professional Evaluation
Tier 2: Evaluation of a single “Exemplary House”
Tier 3: Evaluation Relative to Forbes Architecture’s Residential Guiding Principles & Best Practices, the seven categories of which are as follows:
Siting and Local Context
Architectural Form and Detailing
Building Materials and Craft
Spatial Configuration
HVAC and Tech
Physical and Psychological Effects
Environmental | Appropriateness to Region and Local Climate Zone
From the Forbes editors
Daniel V. Scully/Architects is a three-person practice based in Dublin, New Hampshire. Working in a state that he acknowledges can be “architecturally conservative,” Scully seeks to reference and respect the region's architectural heritage while introducing a strong contemporary voice, which he honed during youthful stints working for such Modernist icons as Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi. The latter's seminal volume, Learning from Las Vegas (which Scully contributed to), still influences his work. Take the office's Featured Project, a three-story lakefront house, which sports aluminum pergolas that extend around the shingled exterior like the chrome side trim on a 1950s Buick. With fir paneling in lieu of drywall and a rooftop photovoltaic array that produces more energy that the house consumes, the project nods to the past while putting its own unique spin on it.