User:Echo245245/Chad Oppenheim

Chad Oppenheim (born January 8, 1971) is an American architect based in Miami, Florida. Oppenheim is best known for designing iconic high-rise residential and hotel facilities. Chad Oppenheim is the founding principal of Oppenheim Architecture + Design, an architecture, interior design, and planning firm based in Miami, with offices in Los Angeles and Basel, Switzerland. The firm designs with a sensitivity towards man and nature, harmonizing with the surroundings of each context. The firm specializes in mixed-use hotels and resorts, retail, commercial offices, and residential buildings worldwide that all serve to enhance life.

Education
Chad graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1994 where he studied architecture. He also studied Industrial, Product and Graphic Design Studies at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998.

Career
Chad started his career as a designer in 1995 at Aquitectonica. He left Arquitectonica in 1999 to form Oppenheim Architecture + Design.

Personal Life
Chad is married to Ilona Oppenheim. They have two children and reside in Miami Beach, Florida.

Teaching Experience
2013 - Adjunct Faculty Member, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2006 - Adjunct Faculty Member, Florida International University School of Architecture

2000 - 2004 - Adjunct Faculty Member, Florida International University School of Architecture

1999 - Design Professor, Florida International University School of Architecture

1994 - 2000 - Visiting Critic, Florida International University School of Engineering & Architectural Technology

1994 - 2000 - Visiting Critic, University of Miami School of Architecture

1994 - Visiting Critic, New Jersey Institute of Technology

1994 - 1995 - Assistant Professor of Architectural Technologies and Lecturer, Cornell University School of Architecture