J Reinert Architecture Forbes Recognition — Top 200 & Best-in-State, New Jersey
In 2025, J Reinert Architecture was named to Forbes’ inaugural America’s Top 200 Residential Architects list and was also recognized as a Best-in-State Residential Architect for New Jersey. For a small residential architecture practice based in Haddonfield, the recognition reflects more than a single project or image — it recognizes a consistent body of work shaped by place, restraint, clarity, and the way people actually live.
Hadro House was submitted as the featured project representing the firm’s work. The project’s recognition by both Forbes and AIA New Jersey helps tell a larger story about contemporary residential architecture in established New Jersey communities: thoughtful new work can be modern, deeply contextual, and rooted in its site.
View the official J Reinert Architecture profile on Forbes.
About Forbes Architecture
Forbes launched its architecture vertical under the editorial direction of Richard Olsen, its Senior Architecture Editor, out of a conviction that the architect's role in how Americans design and inhabit their homes had gone largely unrecognized at a national scale. The inaugural America's Top 200 Residential Architects list, published in October 2024, was built to change that — a platform to connect clients with accomplished practices across the country, well beyond the established coastal markets. The list was open to any firm with an online presence, with no entry fee and no geographic bias built into the process.
How Forbes Selected the Top 200
The process began with a national survey of more than 18,000 AIA-member firms, assessed across all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the degree to which residential work was central to their practice. From that field, over 750 firms were invited to submit up to three completed houses — each built in 2019 or later — considered exemplary in the way the work responded to the particulars of place. Each submission was then scored through a structured three-tier evaluation: the first assessed the firm's overall professional record, including published work, awards, and the integrity of its online presence; the second evaluated a single featured house against the foundational measures of stability, utility, and beauty; the third measured the work against seven defined principles — siting and local context, architectural form and detailing, material selection and craft, spatial configuration, environmental systems, physical and psychological effects, and appropriateness to regional climate. Top-scoring submissions advanced to a semifinalist stage, where the Forbes Architecture editorial team and a regionally diverse advisory board of twelve leading experts re-evaluated the work using the same criteria. The final 200 represented those firms whose projects most fully met the standard across all three tiers.
The Recognition
America's Top 200 Residential Architects - 2025
Forbes’ Top 200 Residential Architects list is a national recognition. J Reinert Architecture was included in the inaugural 2025 list, placing the firm among a limited group of residential architecture practices selected from across the country.
Best-in-State Residential Architects,
New Jersey - 2025
The Best-in-State recognition identifies leading residential architecture practices within each state. J Reinert Architecture was recognized for New Jersey, reinforcing the firm’s position within the state’s residential architecture community.
These are distinct recognitions. The Top 200 is a national ranking across all 50 states. Best-in-State acknowledges the leading practice within New Jersey specifically. J Reinert Architecture holds both.
In the Broader Conversation
The Forbes recognition extended beyond the list itself. Richard Olsen's essay "Architecture and the American House Now", published in Forbes in October 2024, served as the editorial foundation for the entire initiative — an argument for why the architect's role in residential design matters now more than ever. Olsen wrote that the list was meant to point to architects "to whom you can turn, no matter where you are across the nation, to help you create a house that meets both your personal demands and the outsized existential demands of our times." Being part of that conversation reflects something about how the work at JRA is understood: grounded in place, shaped by how people actually live, and resolved with intention.
Work With J Reinert Architecture
J Reinert Architecture works with clients throughout South Jersey including; Haddonfield, Moorestown, Cherry Hill, and the New Jersey Shore area creating custom residential architecture that is shaped by place, process, and the way each client lives. If your planning to build your dream home, we’d love to help you get a home that is even more than you imagine possible.
