Chad Oppenheim heads a 30-person architectural practice with offices in Miami and Basel, Switzerland. His high-profile projects push the boundaries of modernism.
Oppenheim is comfortable designing in both sunny shores and mountain views, highlighting views and experiences of the outdoors in its many disparate forms.
At 43 (in December 2014), the New Jersey native is relatively far along in his architecture career. He has been ambitious about building since he was very young.
“The largest project we’ve ever done was the design of a city for one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand people in Abu Dhabi,” says Oppenheim of a still un-built plan. The kind of range he tackles is “exciting but sometimes challenging,” he adds.
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Early Influences and Education
When he was seven, his parents started working with an architect to build a home in New Jersey. Up until that point, he wanted to draw cars, but suddenly he started drawing houses. His mother bought him Frank Lloyd Wright books.
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After earning his B.A. in architecture from Cornell, he moved to Miami and worked for the firm Arquitectonica. As a kid, he would watch Miami Vice with his father. He thought Miami was really cool because Miami Vice’s opening credits famously featured Arquitectonica’s sleek Atlantis Condominium.
Things came full circle for Oppenheim 20 years later when the show’s creator and director, Michael Mann, told him, “Your work represents a new Miami,” and then shot part of the 2006 movie version of the TV series in Oppenheim’s own home.
Architectural Style and Key Projects
Sitting just a stone’s throw from the year-old Pérez Art Museum Miami, Oppenheim’s Ten Museum Park rises 50 stories above Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Oppenheim likes white - as do the people who buy apartments in Miami - and in projects like the small Ilonabay townhouse complex there, his gleaming geometries seem to be channeling Richard Meier.
Oppenheim has long admired the older architect’s work, and even went to Cornell because Meier had in the 1950s. But as he evolved, he says “I became more interested in other things rather than rigid geometry. I let it be a variable in the work.” And, indeed, upon closer inspection, Ilonabay, completed in 2006, reveals some quirk to its design.
For Ten Museum Park, a white 50-story tower in a prime location on Biscayne Boulevard, just steps from the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed Pérez Art Museum Miami, Oppenheim gave his building what he calls a “crisp, well-proportioned exoskeleton,” but staggered the balconies. This gives it a jolt of the unexpected while still keeping the focus firmly on what’s outside.
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Oppenheim often favors a scaled-up, rectangular opening for his work in tropical climes - the equivalent of a picture window, but writ large. A project that came to be called “House on a Dune,” on the Bahamas’ Harbour Island, is essentially a big rectangular breezeway in weathered wood, leading out to a deck overlooking the ocean.
In the lofty, open-air entrance court of Oppenheim’s own Miami home - which he calls Villa Allegra - a reflecting pool lines up with an oculus positioned just above.
Oppenheim likes architecture from the days when there were no architects, citing Native American cliff dwellings in particular. They used whatever materials were around then and built these incredible structures that are still incredibly beautiful.
Large window openings in Oppenheim’s Aspen home connect the house to the great outdoors, as does its cladding, which mostly consists of regional stone and reclaimed wood. The first is his own Aspen home, a 30-year-old ski chalet called La Muna, which was a patchwork of odd renovations when he bought it in 2008. Oppenheim made a small addition and re-clad the whole structure in stone, reclaimed wood and steel, using much of the same old wood for the walls both inside and out, keeping things minimal, rustic and warm.
Adjacent to his Basel office is a new single-family house that was also noticed by Architzer.
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Although several of Oppenheim’s commissioned and designed projects have yet to break ground, they augur big things to come. A 2.6-million-square-foot mixed-use residential complex, the Marina Beach + Towers in Dubai, for example, resembles two curving metal slabs leaning back-to-back, with a lush tropical garden hidden in the space between them.
After finishing up work on the massive Michael Bay house - built into a hillside, echoing those Native American cliff dwellings he so admires - it’s clear that Oppenheim will continue to balance the tenets of clean-lined modernism with his own take on down-to-earth details.
A lot of modern architecture tends to be cold.
Rob Oppenheim: Career Earnings
This section provides information on the career earnings of Rob Oppenheim, a professional golfer.
- Total Career Earnings: $1,887,970
- Average Prize Money per Year: $269,710
- Best Year: 2015-16, earning $462,427
- Earnings in 2024 (so far): $448,364
Rob Oppenheim turned pro in 2006 and has played for 8 years and was born in USA.
What is Rob Oppenheim's career earnings?Rob Oppenheim has earned total career earnings of $1,887,970.
How much does Rob Oppenheim make per year?Rob Oppenheim has averaged $269,710 prize money per year.
When was Rob Oppenheim highest prize money in a year?Rob Oppenheim best year was 2015-16 where he earned $462,427.
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