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Nat Oppenheimer
Executive Vice President at Silman
Nat Oppenheimer joined Silman in 1988 where he is now Executive Vice President. Founded in 1966, Silman has served as the structural engineering consultant on more than 23,000 projects. The firm values its collaborative working relationship with architects and focuses on structural engineering for both new construction and historic buildings. The firm has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston.
As Principal in Charge of much of the firm's institutional work, Oppenheimer has worked on some of the most significant American cultural centers of the last decade. Recent projects include Grace Farms designed by SANAA in New Canaan, CT, the expansion and renovation of the Harvard Art Museums, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Currently teaching at Princeton University, Oppenheimer has been an invited jury critic for the architecture schools at Rice University, The New School's Parsons School of Design, and the University of Michigan. He has also taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and at Parsons School of Design.
In his lecture, Oppenheimer will discuss the development of engineering systems to support new construction, renovations, and historic preservation.
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