Today, technological innovation across multiple disciplines suggests that design computation is no longer limited to the binary realm of the digital, but rather transforms into an intense interface to the more complex domain of the physical. For this lecture Achim Menges will discuss how materiality no longer remains a fixed property and passive receptor of form, but instead how it can be transformed into an active generator of design and an adaptive agent of both structural performance and architectural performativity.
Achim Menges is an architect and professor at the University of Stuttgart where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design. His 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.