Oppenheim Architecture

Oppenheim Architecture is a global design practice engaging with diverse clients, cultures, and environments across five continents.

Established in 1999 by Chad Oppenheim, the practice has studios in Miami, Basel and Tirana with an inquisitive team of nearly seventy architects, interior designers, planners, dreamers, and technicians. Our European operation is led by Swiss architect Beat Huesler, Chad’s long-time friend and associate from Cornell University. The studios operate as one, guided by poetically contextual design, hyperfunctionality, and building craft.

As architectural archeologists, our work is highly attuned to its site. We go beyond the bounds of conventional architectural production—studying people and cultures, technologies and materials, psychologies and experiences—to create buildings and spaces that connect people with the spirit of place.

As value creators and problem-solvers, we aim to challenge and inspire so that each site and project fulfills and exceeds its potential. Every brief holds hidden value, and our focus is to realize these greater cultural, experiential, and economic possibilities—to make one plus one equal eleven. By seeing architecture as part of a wider ecosystem, we amplify benefits not only for our clients and users, but also for the surrounding community and environment.

Oppenheim Architecture has received over 130 industry distinctions, with more than 65 from the AIA, including the AIA’s highest honor, the Silver Medal, as well as a 2018 National Design Award from Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the 2023 American Prize for Architecture from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, and the 2025 Architizer A+ Award for Best Global Firm.