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Achim Menges (born 1975 in Mannheim) is a German architect and university professor. He leads the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart.
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Achim Menges (born 1975 in Mannheim) is a German architect and university professor. He leads the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart.
Menges studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Architectural Association in London. He was then unit master at the Diploma School and studio master in the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Programme at the Architectural Association. After a professorship at the HfG Offenbach, he was appointed to the University of Stuttgart in 2008, where he founded the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD). [1] From 2009 to 2015, he was also a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Menges has been Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning since 2017 and spokesperson for the DFG-Cluster of Excellence EXC 2120 Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) since 2019. [2]
At the ICD, Menges is researching innovative, sustainable construction methods that are made possible by digital planning methods and robotic fabrication processes. The aim is to be able to build significantly faster with significantly less material in the future while understanding technological innovations in construction as an opportunity for more liveable and high-quality architecture. With his research work in this area he became known internationally and has significantly increased the visibility of the Department of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart.[ citation needed ] According to a Stanford/Elsevier study, he was the second most cited researcher in the field of architecture worldwide in 2022. [3] In 2023, he was the first architect to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize. [4]
His most important projects include the Maison Fibre installation at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, [5] two pavilions for the 2019 Federal Horticultural Show in Heilbronn, [6] the 2019 Urbach Tower, [7] the 2016 Elytra Pavillon at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London [8] and the 2014 Forest Exhibition Pavilion in Schwäbisch Gmünd. [9]
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