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Stuttgart
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Professor Achim Menges
AA Dipl.(Hons.) RIBA II, Architect BDA, AKH
Achim Menges is a registered architect in Frankfurt and full professor at the University of Stuttgart, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the director of the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC). He has also been Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and has held numerous other visiting professorships in Europe and the United States. He graduated with honours from the Architectural Association, AA School of Architecture in London, where he subsequently taught as Studio Master and Unit Master at the AA Graduate School and the AA Diploma School.
The practice and research of Achim Menges focuses integrative computational design methods, robotic fabrication and construction processes, and advanced material and building systems. His work is based on an interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with structural engineering, systems and production engineering, computer science, material science, as well as the humanities and social sciences. He is the director of the interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence IntCDC. A Cluster of Excellence is the most significant and most substantial grant awarded by the German Research Foundation. This is the first time a Cluster of Excellence has been awarded in the field of Architecture. Achim Menges is also a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences of the State of Baden-Württemberg. For his scientific work, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2023 of the German Research Foundation, which is considered to be the most important and highest endowed research prize in Germany.
Achim Menges has published more than 20 books on his work and related areas of design research, and is the author/co-author of more than 320 scientific papers and numerous articles. He has delivered more than 300 keynotes and invited plenary lectures. In 2021 and 2023, he was ranked by the Stanford/Elsevier study as the world's second most cited researcher in architecture.
His building projects and design research have received more than 90 international awards, have been widely published and exhibited worldwide, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Chicago Architecture Biennale, and are part of several prestigious museum collections, including the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.