Achim Menges (*1975, Prof. AA Dipl. (Hons.)) is an architect and director of the Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. Currently he is also Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Visiting Professor for the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program at the Architectural Association in London. He taught at the AA School of Architecture as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program from 2002 to 2009 and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006. From 2005 to 2008 he was Professor for Form Generation and Materialisation at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design. Achim Menges’s research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, algorithmic design, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing. His research projects have been published and exhibited worldwide and received numerous international awards.

Publications (selection)

• Emergent Technologies and Design (ed. with M. Hensel and M. Weinstock, Oxford 2010)
• Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space in Architecture (ed. with M. Hensel and C. Hight, London 2009)
• Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design (ed. with M. Hensel, Architectural Design Vol. 78, No. 2/2008)