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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 and Construction at the University of Stuttgart. The
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 Weiguo.
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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.
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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’.
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’.
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: Graz Arch
The Mono-Material Wood Wall, a novel timber construction system developed by the ICD and Jade Hochschule, and demonstrated in the IBA: Timber Prototype House, won the Green Concept Award 2020 in the category of New Living.
The international Green Product Awards is a community of companies, start-ups and students that are dedicated to inno
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.
Watch here:
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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
On January 23rd, Achim Menges will speak at Klimahouse Bozen about integrative computational design and construction.
Please find more information here: Klimahouse Bozen