2023
awards

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-PreisForschungs Förderpreis

Berlin
Prof. Achim Menges

Links:

Universität Stuttgart 09.Dezember 2022, Beitrag

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to Prof. Achim Menges, head of the Institute for Computational Design a

2020

DigitalFUTURES Project Award: Urbach Tower

DigitalFUTURES Project Award:
ICD: Prof. A. Menges, D. Wood
ITKE: Prof. J. Knippers, L. Aldinger, S. Bechert

The Urbach Tower has received the DigitalFUTURES World Award for best project 2020.

The award was anounced at the closing ceremony of this years DigitalFUTUTRES confrence and workshop series hosted by Tongji University.  The selections were made by a jurry consisting of Mark Burry, Professor Mette Thomsen, Dr Areti Markopoulou and Professor Xu

22.06.2020

Material Computation: Intelligent Fabrication

École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles, France
A. Menges

On 22nd of June Achim Menges will deliver the opening lecture of the annual workshop »Intelligent Fabrication« at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’Architecture –Versailles (ENSA-V). The online lecture will focus on »Material Computation«.

Please register HERE

18.06.2020

Towards Fibrous Tectonics

Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
A. Menges

On 18th of June Achim Menges gives the online lecture ‘Towards Fibrous Tectonics’ for TU Delft. The lecture is part of a two-lecture series, where Menges talks about two radically different materials from the perspective of ‘Integrative computational design and fabrication’.

26.05.2020

Advancing wood architecture

Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
A. Menges

On 26th of May Achim Menges gives the online lecture ‘Advancing wood architecture’ for TU Delft. The lecture is part of a two-lecture series, where Menges talks about two radically different materials from the perspective of ‘Integrative computational design and fabrication’.

16.05.2020

Towards a novel material culture in Architecture

TU Graz, Austria
A. Menges

On March 16th, Achim Menges will speak at Graz Architecture Lectures 2020 about the push for a novel building culture centred around materiality and computation.

Kronesgasse 5, 8010 Graz (first floor), March 16th, starting at 09:00

Please find more information here:

nnual-events/graz-architecture-lectures/">Graz Architecture Lectures 2020

-->
10.03.2020

TV-Feature: PM Wissen

PM Wissen

PM Wissen

The Science TV program P.M. Wissen has recently broadcasted a great short film which explains the concept of self-shaping manufacturing of our Urbach Tower. The film features a visit to ICD’s Computational Construction Laboratory in Stuttgart, our research partners at ETH Zurich, and Industry partners Blumer Lehmann.

2020

Urbach TowerFinalist for Archdaily Building of the Year 2020

Archdaily Building of the Year 2020 Finalist
ICD: Prof. A. Menges, D. Wood
ITKE: Prof. J. Knippers, L. Aldinger, S. Bechert

URBACH TOWER

The Urbach Tower has been selected by ArchDaily readers as one of 5 finalists in Building of the Year 2020 awards in the Small Scale & Installations category!

Link to the project: Urbach Tower

23.01.2020

Integrative Computational Design and Construction

Klimahouse, Bozen, Italy
A. Menges

On January 23rd, Achim Menges will speak at Klimahouse Bozen about integrative computational design and construction.

Please find more information here: Klimahouse Bozen