Mon April 27th, 6:00 pm @ EMPAC Concert Hall

ACHIM MENGES: “Computational Material Culture”

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ACHIM MENGES is a a registered architect in Frankfurt, Germany and a professor at the University of Stuttgart, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design since 2008. Additionally, Menges is a Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design since 2008.

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 that enables 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. Menges has published several books on his work and related fields of design research, and he is the author and co-author of numerous articles and scientific papers. His projects and design research have received many international awards, have been published and exhibited world wide, and form parts of several renowned museum collections, including the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Menges graduated with honors from the AA school of Architecture in London where he subsequently taught as Studio Master of 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 Menges was Professor for Form Generation and Materialisation at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. Menges is a member of several international research evaluation boards and of numerous scientific committees of leading peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

From Achim Menges’ profile at the University of Stuttgart Institute for Computational Design, read more here.

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