Elegance and innovation: architect lauded as American prize laureate

by Christopher Brinckerhoff | January 2, 2024 6:00 am

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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban studies, announced Chad Oppenheim, an architect and urban planner at Oppenheim Architecture in Miami, has been selected as the 2023 Laureate of the American Prize for Architecture. The award is internationally regarded as the highest honor for architecture in the U.S.

Oppenheim’s built works, spanning over two decades, are expansive in typology and geography, including works ranging from cultural and hospitality buildings to residences and urban master-planning throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, architecture critic, and president and CEO at the Chicago Athenaeum, says, “Subtle, powerful, elegant, and deeply romantic, he is a prolific American architect who is radical in his restraint, demonstrating his reverence for history and culture, as well as time and space, while honoring the preexisting built and natural environments, as he reimagines a more beautiful and poetic world with modern, meaningful buildings that relate to their context and reinvigorates the landscape and places in which his designs exits.

“His monumental, immutable architecture enhances the lives of its occupants, realizes a site’s full potential, and protects and celebrates the natural environment.

“From the serene Jordanian desert to the lush Bahamas, he shapes buildings and places to achieve the optimal balance between creativity and pragmatism, function and experience, construction and aesthetics.”

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