Achim Menges

Achim Menges (born 1975 in Mannheim) is a German architect and university professor.

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).

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.

[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.