Prof. Achim Menges, born in 1975, is the director of the newly founded Institute for Computational Design at Stuttgart University. He has also been teaching at the AA School of Architecture as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Program since 2002 and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003-2006. From 2005 to 2008 he was Professor for Form Generation and Materialization at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany.