Tomás Méndez Echenagucia

Assistant Professor - University of Washington.

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Tomás Méndez Echenagucia is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington’s department of Architecture. His research is focused on the use of simulation, computational geometry and optimization algorithms to make building components more sustainable. He holds a double degree in Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Politecnico di Torino, as well as a PhD in Architecture and Building Design also from the Politecnico di Torino. He has practiced as an architect and consultant in Europe and South America. His work includes several research pavilions and prototypes, including the “Armadillo Vault” for the Venice Biennale in 2016 and the ETH Pavilion in New York City in 2015. He completed a five year postdoctoral researcher position at the Block Research Group in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich, where he was a project lead in the HiLo research unit. Tomás is a co-developer of the COMPAS framework, an ecosystem of modeling, design and simulation tools, ranging from Finite Element Analysis to geometric acoustics.

news

Jun 15, 2023 New conference paper accepted in Forum Acusticum 2023!
May 12, 2023 New conference paper accepted for EURODYN 2023 at TU Delft!
May 1, 2023 New conference paper accepted for ASCE 2023!
Nov 7, 2022 AIA Seattle Award of Merit
Nov 6, 2022 The HiLo unit receives the 2022 ARC award
Nov 3, 2022 Energy and Buildings paper published
Mar 31, 2022 UW Team is receives ARPA-e grant
Jan 26, 2022 New paper out on JASA on the design of thin Helmholtz Resonators
Dec 5, 2021 Nathan Brown and Vidhya Rajendran present our work at ASA 2021 Seattle
Oct 8, 2021 Prof. Méndez Echenagucia named one of 2021 Most creative people by Fast Company
Oct 6, 2021 The Hilo Unit has been officially opened
Sep 19, 2021 New Article by Fast company on our Helmholtz Resonator panels
Mar 9, 2021 Former student Vidhya Rajendran recieves 2020 ASA Meeting best student paper
Jan 9, 2021 Prof. Méndez Echenagucia awarded a UW Royalty Research Fund grant
Sep 20, 2019 Appointed Assistant Professor at the UW Department of Architecture