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American architecture firm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SmithGroup is an international architectural, engineering and planning firm. Established in 1853 by architect Sheldon Smith, SmithGroup is the longest continually operating architecture and engineering firm in the United States that is not a wholly owned subsidiary.[1] The firm's name was changed to Field, Hinchman & Smith in 1903, and it was renamed Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in 1907.[2] In 2000, the firm changed its name to SmithGroup. In 2011, the firm incorporated its sister firm, JJR, into its name, becoming SmithGroupJJR. As of August 1, 2018, the firm changed its name back to SmithGroup.[3]
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As of 2019, it ranks among the top 50 architecture firms according to Architect, the official magazine of AIA[4] and is ranked as the eighth largest architecture/engineering firm in the U.S.[5]
Locations
The firm has offices in 20 cities: Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Madison, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.. It expanded outside North America by opening an office in Shanghai, China, in December 2013.[6] This office is now closed.
Notable staff
Notable architects and engineers from the firm include Wilfred Armster, C. Howard Crane, David DiLaura, Rainy Hamilton Jr., Robert F. Hastings, Julius Goldman, William Kapp, Wirt C. Rowland, Rosa T. Sheng and Minoru Yamasaki.
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