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SmithGroup

Industry	Architecture
Founded	1853; 171 years ago (1853)
Founder	Sheldon Smith
Services	Architecture, Building Enclosure Consulting, Campus Planning, Campus Strategy & Analytics, Civil Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Energy & Environmental Modeling, Fire Protection & Life Safety Engineering, Historic Preservation, Interiors, Lab Planning, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design, Medical Planning, MEP Engineering, Programming, Strategy, Structural Engineering, Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Urban Planning
Revenue	354,000,000 United States dollar (2023)
Number of employees	1,500 (2024)
Website	www.smithgroup.com

SmithGroup is an international architectural, engineering and planning firm based in Detroit, Michigan. 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. The firm's name was changed to Field, Hinchman & Smith in 1903, and it was renamed Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in 1907. 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.

As of 2019, it ranks among the top 50 architecture firms according to Architect Magazine, the official magazine of AIA and also ranked as the 5th largest architecture/engineering firm in the U.S. The firm is composed of client industry-focused practices serving Cultural, Government, Healthcare, Higher Education, Mixed-Use, Parks & Open Spaces, Science & Technology, Senior Living, Urban Environments, Waterfront and Workplace markets. The firm has offices in 20 cities: Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Madison, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C.

The firm expanded outside North America by opening an office in Shanghai, China, in December 2013.

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.

Notable projects

References

1. Cramer, James P. (2005). Almanac of Architecture and Design. Atlanta, GA: Greenway Communications. p. 348. ISBN 0-9675477-9-2.
2. Lebovich, William (August 6, 2003). "150 Years of SmithGroup". ArchitectureWeek. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
3. "Rebranded SmithGroup Debuts Mission to Design a Better Future". SmithGroup. Retrieved 2018-08-05.
4. "The 2019 Architect 50". Architect. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
5. "Building Design and Construction August 2022". Retrieved 2013-04-18.
6. Criswell, Jakita (9 December 2013). "Architectural Firm SmithGroupJJR Launches Office in Shanghai, China". DBusiness Magazine. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
7. ^ Original Smith, Hinchman & Grylls building plan sheets
8. "Fourteen Years Ago Today, Detroit Imploded The Hudson's Department Store Building". Curbed Detroit. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
9. ^ American Institute of Architects application
10. "Smith, Hinchman & Grylls". Michigan Modern. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
11. "DC Water installs thermal energy exchange system at new headquarters". WaterWorld. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

Further reading

• Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture: A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Thomas J Holleman & James P Gallagher (1978). Smith, Hinchman & Grylls: 125 Years of Architecture and Engineering, 1853-1978. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1615-8.

External links

• SmithGroup company website

v t e Architects and artisans of metropolitan Detroit
Resident architects	Charles N. Agree Gunnar Birkerts Marcus Burrowes Henry T. Brush C. Howard Crane Peter J. Diederichs Robert O. Derrick John M. Donaldson Joseph N. French Wallace Frost Yousif Ghafari Alvin E. Harley William E. Higginbotham Eric J. Hill John C. Haro Eugene C. Hopkins Albert Kahn Julius Kahn Louis Kamper William E. Kapp William Kessler Hugh T. Keyes Gordon W. Lloyd William G. Malcomson George D. Mason Gustav A. Mueller S. Kenneth Neumann Mark Nickita Harry J. Rill Rogers and MacFarlane Gino Rossetti Matthew L. Rossetti Wirt C. Rowland Victor Saroki William Scott Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Spier & Rohns Leonard B. Willeke Minoru Yamasaki
Visiting architects	Henry Bacon John Burgee Daniel Burnham Ralph Adams Cram Paul Cret Henry Engelbert Cass Gilbert Bertram Goodhue Michael Graves Victor Gruen Richard W. Jennings Jens Jensen Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius Philip Johnson Charles Luckman McKim, Mead & White Frederick Olmsted Charles A. Platt John C. Portman Jr. Henry Hobson Richardson Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Eero Saarinen Horace Trumbauer Whitney Warren Charles Wetmore Stanford White Frank Lloyd Wright
Resident sculptors	Marshall Fredericks Julius Melchers Carl Milles Isamu Noguchi Corrado Parducci Carlo Romanelli Edward Wagner
Visiting sculptors	Herbert Adams Donald De Lue Avard Fairbanks Daniel Chester French Robert Graham Lee Lawrie Giacomo Manzù J. Massey Rhind Ulysses Ricci Augusto Rivalta Randolph Rogers Raffaello Romanelli Adolph Alexander Weinman
Resident ceramists	Horace Caulkins Diana Pancioli Mary Chase Perry Stratton
Photographers	Michelle Andonian Curt Clayton Don Coles Carlos Diaz Sean Doerr Marge Beaver Roy Feldman Dale Fisher Jeff Garland Steve Hall Balthazar Korab Dave Krieger Laszlo Regos Tony Soluri William Zbaren
See also Architecture of metropolitan Detroit

• Architecture firms based in Michigan
• Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
• Architects from Detroit
• Companies based in Detroit
• 1853 establishments in Michigan
• Design companies established in 1853
• Historicist architects
• 19th-century American architects
• 20th-century American architects
• 21st-century American architects