The firm’s recognition in the highly competitive North America category—the only architecture firm recognized in the 22-company list—reflects how KPF invests in innovation, builds workplace culture, and empowers employees to drive new ideas.
KPF invests in embedding technical excellence at every level of the firm—from designers and computational specialists to project managers and operations staff—to create a network of experts that can deliver its mission to shape cities through impactful architecture. KPF operates as a “start-in” technology incubator and an education provider—as well as being one of the world’s most influential architecture firms.
The Design Technology team is central to that culture of innovation and spans Environmental Performance, Urban Interface (KPFui), Computational Design, Digital Fabrication, and Visualization. The team turns emerging technology into tools the whole firm uses on projects and has built tools including KAI—a custom AI assistant that transforms architectural workflows, giving staff firmwide secure access to decades of project knowledge and hundreds of thousands of images—and Scout—a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award-winning platform that lets the public participate in city planning.
