Megafirms
The big architectural news of the last decade is not the notoriety of starchitects or the Bilbao Effect, it is the growing predominance of the megafirms, multi-city and multi-national practices whose employees number in the thousands, and whose revenues are measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Large firms date back to McKim, Mead & White in the early twentieth century, and later Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But in 1920, the widely respected McKim, Mead & White Monograph could be found in drafting rooms across the nation, and SOM, at least in its early days, produced some modern classics such as Lever House,