52 leading architects, teachers, and critics, including several Pritzker Prize winners and deans of major architecture schools were asked for their opinion.
[2] Counted by architect, works by Frank Gehry received the most votes, followed by those of Rem Koolhaas.
The result of the survey led Vanity Fair to label Gehry as "the most important architect of our age".
[3] The respondents named a total of 132 different structures when asked to indicate the five most important buildings, monuments, and bridges completed since 1980.
[5] In response, Lance Hosey of Architect magazine conducted an alternate survey of leading green building experts and found that no buildings appeared on both lists, suggesting that standards of "good design" and "green design" are misaligned.