Beat Huesler
Biography
ABOUT
Beat Huesler is a licensed architect with over 30 years professional experience from firms in New York, and Basel, Switzerland before founding Huesler Architekten in Muttenz, Switzerland in 1996. His collaboration with Chad Oppenheim extends back to their studies at Cornell University in New York and was cemented in 2009 when they jointly established the Swiss office of Oppenheim Architecture.
Huesler heads the European studio, managing a senior architectural team to deliver projects in urban and remote locations around the world. His extensive construction and technical knowledge make the studio highly responsive to the available resources and industry practices in any specific location. An ability to work collaboratively with local architects, builders and craftspeople leads to buildings made for their environments and loved by their communities.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE OFFICE
Oppenheim Architecture is a global design practice engaging with diverse clients, cultures, and environments across six continents. Established in 1999 by Chad Oppenheim, the practice has studios in Miami, Basel and Tirana with an inquisitive team of over seventy architects, interior designers, planners, dreamers, and technicians. Our Basel and Tirana offices are 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.
AWARDS
- Chicago Athenaeum, American Prize for Architecture
- Multiple Best Hospitality & Commercial Awards Project Ayla Golf Academy
- Best Swiss Sustainable Architecture, Award Winner Muttenz Water Purification Plant
PROJECTS TO BE PRESENTED DURING THE EVENT
Project #1: College of Europe Tirana
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Following the tradition of democratizing public space in Albania, as seen in the transformation of Skanderbeg Square and the Pyramid of Tirana, the new campus reimagines architecture as a vessel for unity, openness, and civic identity.