[Excerpt] The first stop of the Cornell Baker Program’s Class of 2021 Miami Trek was a visit to the office of Chad Oppenheim, Principal and Lead Designer of Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture. The class gathered in the mezzanine conference room inside Oppenheim’s Miami office located in the famous Design District. The building itself is covered in greenery on the exterior and surrounded by trees, providing perhaps the block’s only cool, shady spot on an otherwise hot South Florida morning. Inside the building, white walls and interior furnishings elicit a modern minimalist feel, a trait synonymous with the projects Oppenheim discussed with the class.