Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Beckh
After graduating from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in civil engineering, Matthias Beckh worked in New York for Robert Silman Associates, later as a project manager for Guy Nordenson Associates. After six years in industry, he returned to Munich to dedicate himself to teaching and research as an Academic Advisor at the Chair of Structural Design at the TUM. Since then, lightweight structural design has been one of the focal points of his research. From 2013 to 2018 Matthias Beckh worked for the British engineering company BuroHappold, from 2015 onwards heading the branch in Munich. During this time, he supported a wide range of projects, such as industrial architecture (Ackermann Architects), museum buildings (Herzog de Meuron), and the competition entry for a new stadium in Munich's Olympic Park (3XN Architects). At the same time, he taught at the Faculty of Architecture of the ETH Zurich between 2014 and 2019, where he supervised the studio „Architecture and Structure“ and worked on experimental form finding methods for lightweight concrete shells.
In 2018 he opened in collaboration with Simon Vorhammer the office beckh vorhammer - Structural I Computational Design https://beckh-vorhammer.com in Munich. His international contacts regularly take him abroad as a consultant for UNESCO and ICOMOS, most recently to Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan in matters of earthquake protection, conservation and structural rehabilitation of temple buildings and cultural sites.
Following a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, he has been heading the Chair of Structural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of TU Dresden since winter semester 2019.
Memberships
- Bayerische Ingenieurekammer Bau
- Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte
- Gesellschaft für Ingenieurbaukunst (CH)
- IASS | International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures
- ICOMOS | International Council on Monuments and Sites
- ISCARSAH | International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes