JERDE

What JERDE does

JERDE is a privately held architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1977 by Jon Jerde in Los Angeles. The firm specializes in placemaking and experience-driven design for large-scale mixed-use, retail, hospitality, residential, entertainment, and transit-oriented developments. Its core offering combines five integrated service lines — architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design, and pre-design/development services — under a proprietary methodology branded around the 'Experience-Driven Placemaking' philosophy and the urbanCORE pre-design framework. Technology is built on industry-standard tools (REVIT, AutoCAD, 3DS Max, Rhinoceros, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite); the firm's primary differentiators are human-centered design processes, decades of accumulated project knowledge, and a senior design principal bench with long tenures.

The firm generates revenue through project-based professional services fees negotiated per engagement, with no publicly disclosed pricing or tiers. It serves an enterprise client base of real estate developers, institutional investors, hospitality operators, sports franchises, and municipalities worldwide, with documented projects across the United States, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. Go-to-market is exclusively direct enterprise engagement via six regional offices (Los Angeles, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Mexico City), supplemented by industry awards, thought leadership, and professional networking. Notable commercial outcomes attributed to its projects include Universal CityWalk achieving over $800/sq ft in annual sales, Namba Parks generating over $140M in annual sales, and The Battery delivering $12M in annual revenue to county and local schools.

Name

JERDE

Legal name

The Jerde Partnership Inc.

Website

https://jerde.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

JERDE is a global architecture and urban planning firm specializing in placemaking and experience-driven design for large-scale mixed-use, retail, hospitality, and transit-oriented developments, serving enterprise real estate developers and institutional clients from six regional offices worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural and Urban Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (541410)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Space Planning & Workplace Design (BPAHAKAI)

Keywords

• Architecture design services
• Mixed-use development
• Placemaking consulting
• Urban master planning
• Transit-oriented development

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: JERDE generates revenue through fees for architecture, planning, landscape architecture, interior design, and pre-design/development services for mixed-use, retail, hospitality, residential, and commercial projects worldwide

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

JERDE provides full-service architecture and design offerings including master planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, and pre-design/development consulting for mixed-use, retail, residential, office, hospitality, and public space projects worldwide. Its work is anchored in a proprietary placemaking methodology that prioritizes human experience, integrates psychological design principles, and combines multidisciplinary teams to deliver category-defining urban destinations across six global offices.

Product overview

JERDE is an architecture and design firm offering a unified portfolio of placemaking services centered on experience-driven design. The core offering combines Architecture & Design Services with the proprietary Placemaking methodology (urbanCORE process) to create mixed-use developments, retail environments, urban entertainment centers, transit-oriented developments, and hospitality projects. Rather than a modular software platform, JERDE's 'products' are project types—each representing a distinct development category with recurring design principles applied across global markets. The firm operates from Los Angeles headquarters with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, and Mexico City, delivering projects across five service lines: Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, and Pre-Design & Development Services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture & Design Services Full-service architecture and design offerings including master planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, and pre-design/development consulting for mixed-use, retail, residential, office, hospitality, and public space projects worldwide. Delivered to real estate developers, institutional owners, government entities, and corporate clients across six global offices.
• urbanCORE Pre-Design and Programming Services Pre-design, programming, and repositioning methodology and service delivered by JERDE's urbanCORE group, integrating soft programming and placemaking with site planning and landscape design expertise. Provided to developers and institutional clients during early project stages to establish design direction and program strategy.

Quantifiable outcome

• Namba Parks achieved 21 million visitors in first year
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers26 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Rykadan CapitalmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 April 2026Strategic alliance to create design-driven property developments across Asia. The partnership leverages Rykadan Capital's investment, asset management, and development expertise with JERDE's global design vision and people-centric innovation to pursue design-led property development opportunities. Phil Kim, JERDE Chairman, stated: 'Our shared vision is to regenerate spaces in ways that respond to what people value most today - comfort, identity and joy. Together, we believe design and investment can shape the next generation of sustainable city living.'

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM): SOM is a globally recognized architecture, engineering, and urban planning practice with a strong portfolio of mixed-use and master planning projects. It competes for the highest-profile master planning engagements and serves similar institutional and developer clients.
• HOK: HOK is a global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm with significant mixed-use, hospitality, and entertainment practices. Its scale and global office network overlap with JERDE's enterprise-developer customer base, particularly in Asia and the Middle East.
• Foster + Partners: Foster + Partners is a globally renowned architecture practice with a strong presence in master planning, mixed-use, and high-profile cultural/commercial projects. It competes for the same tier of marquee developer clients commissioning destination-defining projects worldwide.
• Gensler: Gensler is one of the largest global architecture and design firms, with deep practices in commercial offices, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use. While much broader than JERDE, Gensler competes for the same enterprise developer clients and pursues similarly large retail and mixed-use commissions globally.

Emerging players

• MVRDV: MVRDV is a Dutch-based architecture practice known for innovative, research-driven mixed-use and master planning projects across Europe and Asia. Its experience-led design philosophy and global mixed-use portfolio place it in the same competitive tier as JERDE for developer-led destination projects.
• Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG): BIG is an internationally acclaimed architecture practice known for innovation-led, large-scale mixed-use and cultural projects globally. It competes for the same marquee developer and institutional clients commissioning iconic, experience-driven destinations.
• AEDAS: AEDAS is a global architecture firm with major studios in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and London, focused on large mixed-use, residential, hospitality, and TOD projects. Its Asia-centric network and developer client base mirror JERDE's regional footprint and project typologies.

Direct peers

• Benoy: Benoy is an international design firm focused on retail, leisure, mixed-use, and destination developments with offices in the UK, Middle East, and Asia. Its mixed-use and master planning practice for developers overlaps directly with JERDE's core offering of integrated mixed-use and retail destination design.
• CallisonRTKL (Arcadis): CallisonRTKL is a global architecture and master planning practice specializing in retail, mixed-use, hospitality, and entertainment destinations—directly comparable to JERDE's placemaking and urban entertainment center work. Both firms built their brands on category-defining retail/entertainment complexes and compete for the same global developer clients.
• DP Architects: DP Architects is a Singapore-headquartered firm known for large-scale integrated mixed-use developments across Asia (e.g., VivoCity, Esplanade). Like JERDE, it combines architecture, urban design, and landscape with strong Asian developer relationships, making it a directly comparable peer in the JERDE Asia Pacific region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/jerdeplaces
• Xx.com/jerdeplaces
• Facebookfacebook.com/jerdeplaces
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-jerde-partnership

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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