2025

We are honored to share that Forbes named Giulietti Schouten Weber Architects to its first-ever America’s Top 200 Residential Architects List! Over 18,000 firms nationwide were evaluated across a broad spectrum that included siting, local context, materials, spatial configuration, technology, form, detailing, and overall craftsmanship.

From Forbes editor Richard Olsen: “Our projects look quite different from one another…because every client and site are unique,” says Tim Schouten, a partner at Giulietti Schouten Weber Architects. Founded in Portland in 1987, the firm is small but prolific, embracing Modernism in its many guises, from gable-roofed suburban homes to crystalline cliffside dwellings that appear poised for takeoff. (Some of their roofs seem to defy gravity.) Even the trusty Ranch House gets a new lease on life in GSW/A’s hands—but the technology behind them can be anything but retro. In 2021, the company joined the AIA’s 2030 Challenge, which dictates that by 2030, their new buildings and major renovations will be carbon neutral, and none will rely on fossil fuels or greenhouse gas-emitting energy.

Thank you to Forbes for including us among some of the nation’s best residential architects! If you’d like to see the whole list visit this link: https://www.forbes.com/lists/top-architects/ 

If you’d like to read more about Forbes’ selection process and methodology, visit this link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardolsen/2024/09/19/americas-top-200-residential-architects-2025-methodology/