I'm not sure how I came across this guy's firm, but I was interested in everyone else's opinion on his work.
I think his designs are beautiful, functional, smart. I like that he works with developers and has a green-bent. I wonder what his stuff is like outside of Florida/tropical environment and how flexible/diverse he is.
I saw him present at the AIA Colorado Convention in Vail and his works is really nice. He is a very young guy that definitely has an in with some developers. He didn't show much work, if any, that was outside of Miami or a similar region but everything he showed I thought was excellent and pretty progressive. More of his recent residential towers really play with skin as structure and they were a bit more organic than some of his earlier work. It was a very god lecture and I would recommend seeing him speak if you have the chance. It's crazy to see people that are in their mid-thirties like this guy who are really making a name for themselves. Pretty inspiring.
heard somewhere that his wealthy wife allowed him to be his own developer, but i'm not 100% sure of this. a couple of years back metropolis did an article on architects that also worked as developers and he was included.
yes, most or all of his work is in miami or surroundings and it's mostly upscale housing.
seems like you have to have a wealthy benefactor to be in a position like he, or any starchitect, is in. there was another architect from mexico city named Michel Rojkind at the same AIA convention and he was super inspiring as well. he is about the same age and he has a lot of money stowed away from somewhere to help fund his whole operation too. Check out his site. Both these guys are badasses and lucky to have the funding they have so they can do what they do without starving.
His work has just recently been featured in 'Surface' magazine. That's where I came across him. He's my age, the bastard! Anyway, it got me thinking that if he can have fun designing skyscrapers, so can I and sod the environmental implications (well, what I'm doing is only on paper...). But I love some of his visualisations... simplicity and luxury... a bit too much of the bourgeois perhaps, but nice work of its sort. Very nice.
yeah thats true. that was what i thought was so crazy about him and rojkind's lectures. they haven't really done anything at all but they are extremely motivated and are just go-getters. they do tons of conceptual stuff that doesn't get built or maybe will be built eventually but there resumes of built work are pretty non-existent. this is where the rich benefactor comes in, you can't have a firm if you aren't billable but if you have money already then it doesn't matter.
He's actually got a handful of buildings completed in Miami (check out the Boira/Coombes Art Basel piece for a photo of one)
yes, he is young (under 40) and yes, he's go a wealthy wife/father-in-law...oh well. There was recently a piece in a local magazine about a mansion he and his father-in0law purchased for something like 12mil, and it sold as the highest property sold in Miami-Dade county.
He's also an "Arquitectonica" graduate...so his work may bring back memories of their work.
good for him. he could have blow money in brazil for piece of ass or live like a trust fund hippie snorting gourmet coke all the time. he is working and even though i find that work typical of luxury design that is practiced by wealthy architects world over who can afford to deliver hi end starfleet influanced designs for their privaledged circles.
what is more annoying for me lies with taking these type of designs and firms and trying to make them important to majority of people on this world who need some serious solutions to crises like situations at hand.
i don't give rats ass on all glass 20 million dollar residence that looks like calatrava in lower east side. houses for affording nymphos. in those places, hi end porno rules. real estate matters.
Chad Oppenheim
I'm not sure how I came across this guy's firm, but I was interested in everyone else's opinion on his work.
I think his designs are beautiful, functional, smart. I like that he works with developers and has a green-bent. I wonder what his stuff is like outside of Florida/tropical environment and how flexible/diverse he is.
http://oppenoffice.com/
i've only ever seen his condo work in miami, but i agree that it's good stuff. Has he done anything else? I think he's quite young.
I saw him present at the AIA Colorado Convention in Vail and his works is really nice. He is a very young guy that definitely has an in with some developers. He didn't show much work, if any, that was outside of Miami or a similar region but everything he showed I thought was excellent and pretty progressive. More of his recent residential towers really play with skin as structure and they were a bit more organic than some of his earlier work. It was a very god lecture and I would recommend seeing him speak if you have the chance. It's crazy to see people that are in their mid-thirties like this guy who are really making a name for themselves. Pretty inspiring.
He's set to do some project in Latin & Central America. For some odd reason his mercurian rise reminds me of Architectonica in the 80s
heard somewhere that his wealthy wife allowed him to be his own developer, but i'm not 100% sure of this. a couple of years back metropolis did an article on architects that also worked as developers and he was included.
yes, most or all of his work is in miami or surroundings and it's mostly upscale housing.
seems like you have to have a wealthy benefactor to be in a position like he, or any starchitect, is in. there was another architect from mexico city named Michel Rojkind at the same AIA convention and he was super inspiring as well. he is about the same age and he has a lot of money stowed away from somewhere to help fund his whole operation too. Check out his site. Both these guys are badasses and lucky to have the funding they have so they can do what they do without starving.
www.rojkindarquitectos.com
His work has just recently been featured in 'Surface' magazine. That's where I came across him. He's my age, the bastard! Anyway, it got me thinking that if he can have fun designing skyscrapers, so can I and sod the environmental implications (well, what I'm doing is only on paper...). But I love some of his visualisations... simplicity and luxury... a bit too much of the bourgeois perhaps, but nice work of its sort. Very nice.
some guys wealthy wives let them have all the fun...
yup, he be a lucky man
whatever it was, luck or wife, he's built quite a lot of big stuff for a young guy.
He actually hasn't built much at all. Lots of pretty pictures, little built work.
yeah thats true. that was what i thought was so crazy about him and rojkind's lectures. they haven't really done anything at all but they are extremely motivated and are just go-getters. they do tons of conceptual stuff that doesn't get built or maybe will be built eventually but there resumes of built work are pretty non-existent. this is where the rich benefactor comes in, you can't have a firm if you aren't billable but if you have money already then it doesn't matter.
He's actually got a handful of buildings completed in Miami (check out the Boira/Coombes Art Basel piece for a photo of one)
yes, he is young (under 40) and yes, he's go a wealthy wife/father-in-law...oh well. There was recently a piece in a local magazine about a mansion he and his father-in0law purchased for something like 12mil, and it sold as the highest property sold in Miami-Dade county.
He's also an "Arquitectonica" graduate...so his work may bring back memories of their work.
Wonder if he grew up on miami vice....and wanted to be just like don johnson?
actually he got his money from his grandpa who invented and designed all those nuklear bombs...
you fool. that's oppenheimer.
good for him. he could have blow money in brazil for piece of ass or live like a trust fund hippie snorting gourmet coke all the time. he is working and even though i find that work typical of luxury design that is practiced by wealthy architects world over who can afford to deliver hi end starfleet influanced designs for their privaledged circles.
what is more annoying for me lies with taking these type of designs and firms and trying to make them important to majority of people on this world who need some serious solutions to crises like situations at hand.
i don't give rats ass on all glass 20 million dollar residence that looks like calatrava in lower east side. houses for affording nymphos. in those places, hi end porno rules. real estate matters.
snicker snicker Orhan...."hi end porno rules!"
i was performing what the french call a "nom de malypropysm" and i pity the fool who didn't know it.
Equal parts Arquitectonica and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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