Chad Oppenheim will present a lecture titled “Enhanced Life” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Oppenheim is a Miami-based architect whose work encompasses all realms of design, ranging from large-scale urban architecture, hotels and resorts, luxury homes to interiors and furnishings. Founded in 1999, Oppenheim Architecture + Design has garnered global recognition for socially and environmentally conscious architecture, as well as setting trends in the sustainable and humanitarian sectors. An alchemist of atmosphere, Oppenheim transforms the prosaic into the poetic – eliciting a site’s inherent power through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature.

The environment continues as the main inspiration behind the firm’s work. In Miami, Oppenheim thoughtfully made an impact on the local community with the donation of a new entrance to Simpson Park, one of South Florida’s last natural hardwood hammock ecosystems. He expanded to Europe with an office in Basel, Switzerland. His completion of the Enea Headquarters in Rapperswil-Jona sets the stage for the world’s first tree museum. Design is under way for a new benchmark of ecological sensitivity along Surfers Paradise Beach on Australia’s Gold Coast. As a result of winning an international design competition, the mixed-use project will push the boundaries of nature and experience.

Oppenheim’s built large-scale works range from the elegant, 50-story Ten Museum Park tower along the downtown Miami waterfront, to Oppenheim’s design for the multi-tower Net Metropolis commercial complex in Manila, which has the distinction of being the pilot project for the Filipino government’s first-ever national sustainable design program, developed in concert with the U.S. Green Building Council. Oppenheim is also designing multiple hotel and residential towers in New York City.

Oppenheim, a graduate of Cornell University, has an uncompromising commitment to green architecture. He presents lectures around the world, is an adjunct professor of architecture at Florida International University, and has received more than 50 academic and career distinctions, including 33 awards from the American Institute of Architects.

He designed the architecture and interiors for La Muna, a rustic ski chalet in Aspen, Colo. The project won the 2012 World Architecture News International Award for Residential Interiors.

The public is invited to attend this lecture. This is the Ernie Jacks Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Architecture.

Admission is free, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.