Florian Meier is an Associate with Knippers Helbig – Advanced Engineering and is currently co-leading the New York Office.

Florian is a structural engineer and was trained at the Technical University of Munich, with a focus on computational form finding methods and structural optimization at the renowned chair of structural analysis, Prof. Bletzinger.

Florian has experience in a variety of materials and innovative fabrication technologies. Among other projects, his portfolio includes the granite stone vault of the Sean Collier Memorial in Cambridge (Höweler + Yoon Architecture), a canopy robotically manufactured using carbon-fiber reinforced polymers (Achim Menges), and the 150 ft. spanning steel and glass dome of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles(Renzo Piano Building Workshop). Florian is a member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), and has recently lectured at Princeton University, Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania.Since 2018 Florian has been co-teaching “Structures” at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York.