Chad Oppenheim on Rio, Riding the Real Estate Market, and Keeping it Real, Speaking with architect Chad Oppenheim is like encountering a long-lost friend: commonalities instantly surface, conversation quickly transitions to banter, and professional shop talk blurs with personal anecdotes. In a sea of dogma-driven designers, the Miami-based Oppenheim stands out for his candid cadence, but most of all, for his compelling projects in locations as diverse as Brazil, Jordan, and his very own home in Biscayne Bay, where he recently stole a moment away from the Oppenheim Architecture + Design office to speak with Architizer. Villa Alegra. Oppenheims inherent amicability can be seen as a manifestation of the friendliness of his adopted hometown—in terms of both its attitude of optimism and its openness to the market. He explains that Miamis culture of commerce means that the real estate industry has become the greatest patron of an increasingly ambitious architecture whose excessive expense is belied by its international acclaim. This exuberance about Miami and the market today has allowed the exploration of costly architecture and new ways of living, says Oppenheim. But what his teams has always focused on doing is a kind of innovative architecture thats relatively in line with normal buildings, and try to give a little ... via Architizer ift.tt/1kBCFOE
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:10:30 +0000
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