LECTURE: Professor Achim Menges, University of Stuttgart will be at Material Xperience 2016, Ahoy Rotterdam on Wednesday, January 27 at 13:30! More details and your FREE ticket here. 

Achim Menges’ practice and research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of morphogenetic design computation, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing, with the aim of enabling a highly articulated, performative built environment. His work is based on an interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with structural engineers, computer scientists, material scientists and biologists. Achim Menges has published several books on this work and related fields of design research, and he is the author/coauthor of numerous articles and scientific papers. His projects and design research have received many international awards, have been published and exhibited worldwide, and form parts of several renowned museum collections, including the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Professor Achim Menges, born 1975, is a registered architect in Frankfurt and professor at the University of Stuttgart, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design, a position he has held since 2008. He has also been a Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design since 2009. He graduated with honors from the AA School of Architecture in London, where he subsequently taught as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program from 2002 to 2009, as a visiting professor from 2009 to 2012 and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Professor for Form Generation and Materialisation at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany.

Achim Menges is a member of several international research evaluation boards and a member of numerous scientific committees of leading peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.