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On Arcbazar you describe your project, and architects and designers from around the world send you their designs. You compare them, ask your family and friends, and pick the one you love.
Since 2010. Started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and part of MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service.
4.5 / 5clients’ rating of their winning designs (890+ reviews)
Our name
Unser Name arcbazar wurde durch die Idee eines Basars für Architektur inspiriert - ein lebendiger Ort des Austauschs und der Verhandlung von Designdienstleistungen.
Our story
2010
Arcbazar starts in Cambridge, Massachusetts: incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs and mentored by MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service.
2012
Our research on crowdsourcing architecture is presented at ACADIA, and BostInno calls Arcbazar “the Amazon of architecture”.
2014
Entrepreneur magazine names Arcbazar one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the US.
2017
Designers from around the world reimagine the Obama Presidential Center in an open competition on Arcbazar, studied with MIT.
2021
Baykar holds the design competition for its UAS (drone) Research and Manufacturing Centre of Excellence on Arcbazar.
2021
The Routledge Companion to Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, edited by our founder, gives a chapter to AI in crowdsourced design.
2026
SpaceApp: launch a competition, follow the designs as they arrive and rank them on your phone.
Featured inEntrepreneurBostInnoBuiltWorldsThe Architects’ Journalcrowdsourcing.orgNational Association of Realtors
Client testimonials. Real projects.
Client experiences across Arcbazar, paired with their project designs.
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“Hallo Leute, tolle Ergebnisse, wie immer. Entweder habe ich es nicht gefunden, oder dann fehlt es. Es ist eine Funktion, mit der alle eingereichten Dateien e...”
“Keep up the good work! Looking forward to working with you again.”
“würde wirklich gerne Zahlen in Rankings eingeben, anstatt sie zu ziehen”
Founder
Imdat As
Founder
Imdat founded Arcbazar to give anyone with a project access to many designers, and designers access to real projects. An architect and researcher, he holds a master’s degree from MIT and a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has written and spoken widely on crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in architecture. More on imdatas.com ↗
Board of directors
Doug Elder
Chairman of the Board
Jack Hughes
Co-founder at Topcoder
Imdat As
Founder
Berater
Takehiko Nagakura
Hauptratgeber · Associate Professor, MIT, Director of the Computation Group
Tim Curran
CEO of Building Engines, Former CEO of VelaSystems (acquired by Autodesk)
Jon Hirschtick
Founder of Solidworks (acquired by Dessault Systems), Founder and Chairman of Onshape, Inc
Michael Dornbrook
Angel Investor, Former COO of Harmonix Music Systems, Cambridge, MA
Sarah Goldhagen
Architecture Critic at The New Republic, Former Faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
William Porter
Emeritus Professor of Architecture, MIT Partner at Anderson Porter Design, Cambridge, MA
Contact us
Arcbazar.com, Inc. 867 Boylston St Boston, Massachusetts