Omar is a graduate of the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino’s Architecture school in Bucaramanga, Colombia, where he was born. He received an honorable mention for his graduation thesis Dignified Affordable Housing, which consisted of plans for an affordable housing development in Girón, Colombia. The development included homes of diverse sizes using a combination of traditional and contemporary building materials with the objective of achieving a long lasting, affordable and easy to maintain community of homes targeted for low income families.

 

Omar moved to the United States in 2001 and joined Greystone Builders and Architects Inc, a design/build firm in Highland Park, as an Intern Architect. There, he worked on over 25 custom homes in Chicago’s North Shore. In 2005, Omar joined Becker Architects Ltd as a Project Architect and worked on numerous commercial and residential projects. In 2009, he became a freelance architectural designer and focused on taking the Architectural Registration Examination.

 

Omar has been licensed since 2014 and continues to be an independent architect with a focus on residential and light commercial architecture. He lives in Evanston with his wife, Sarah, their daughter, Emerson, and their son, Radley.

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