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Jan 14 2027, Aachen, DE
Identität der Architektur II, Symposium RWTH Aachen Prof. Uwe Schröder, Lecture & Panellist



Nov 21 2026, Edinburgh, UK
Peripheries–Peripherocene, Symposium and exhibition opening on The Journal of Architecture special issue at Custom Lane gallery Edinburgh. 



Nov 4-5 2026, Milan & Piacenza, IT 
Politecnico di Milano, Lecture: Before and After Design – Typologies of Translation


Oct 22-23 2026, Dessau, DE
International Symposium Bauhaus Dessau: Unstable Models - On Typology and Climate: Lecture & Panellist   



Oct 21 2026, Budapest, HR
BME Budapest, Faculty of Architecture Doctoral School, Lecture „Teaching Typology“



Oct 6-7 2026, Zeltweg, AT
4. Fachtagung zur Stärkung von Stadt- und Ortskernen



Sep 28 2026, Drosendorf, AT
Landuni-Tagung Drosendorf - Lecture "Typologische Transformation bestehender Infrastrukturen"



Sep 24-25 2026, Berlin, DE
21. PEP Conference (Programm Entwurfsbasierte Promotion) TU Berlin and assessor at PhD defense of Tobias Rabold (Un.Widmung), supervised by Prof. Ralf Pasel.


 
Jul 15 2026, Siegen, DE
Lecture “Hybrid” at Chair of Design Methodology and Architectural Design –
 Atelier Dilan Vural at Universität Siegen / Neue Architekturschule Siegen (NAS) - online



Jun 19 2026, 4;30 Gent, BE
Andreas is jury member at KU Leuven public PhD defence of Floris De Bruyn: Observations on Type. Typological Strategies for Reuse in Architectural Practice and Education, supervised by Martino Tattara and co-supervised by Caroline Voet.



Jun 9 2026, Aarhus, DK
Lecture “Typologies of Transformation - Spatial Research over Time” within the PhD viva of Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard at Aarhus School of Architecture (online). 



Jun 2 2026, Wuppertal, DE
Lecture “Architektur & Transformation – An-, Um- & Weiterbauen” at Bergische Universität Wuppertal



May 22 2026, Copenhagen, DK
Lecture “Architectural Affordances” at Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation



May 07 2026, Brussels, BE
Invited contribution to CASH, exhibition and publication by Bimberg&Frenz — Amelie Bimberg and Lea Frenz, Architecture Curating Practice / et al. architect-run space, Brussels, 7 May–9 July 2026. 


 

Jan 22-23 2026, Berlin, DE
On Typology – book presentation and seminar at TU Berlin www.tu.berlin/architekturtheorie Prof. Jörg Gleiter.



Dec 18 2025, Book review published 
“Mădălina Diaconu, Aesthetics of Weather, New  York: Bloomsbury 2024”, in Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, 3(2), 2025. Available at: https://khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch/article/view/110



Nov 29 - Dec 3, TU Berlin, DE
Seminar “Typologies of Transformation” at TU Berlin – FG Architekturtheorie. 
 



Oct 21, 2025, 16:00 TU Graz, AT 
Public Defense of supervised doctoral dissertation: Memoryscapes of Post-Yugoslavia: Toward a Typology of Monumental Semiosis by Ena Kukić with assessing professors Vedad Islambegović and Vladimir Kulić.



Sep 30, 2025, 17:00 Tbilisi, GE (GET 19:00) 
Lecture “Three Books on Typologies” at ILIA State University – online Seminar



Sep 19, 2025, 14:00 Milan, IT
Lecture “Typologies of Transformation” at POLIMI International Seminar “Affordances of Architectural Typologies.” 



Sep 15, 2025, 11:00 Pisa, IT
Lecture “Typological Affordances” at the International Conference on Adaptive Reuse hosted by the University of Pisa at the “Gipsoteca di Arte Antica”.



Aug 13, 2025 Drawing Matter, London, UK
“Typology – A Conversation” between Richard Hall, Hans van der Heijden and Andreas Lechner is published at Drawing Matter.



Aug 1, 2025
“Atlas of Typological Affordances – Drawing Architectural Research” is published in M. Rinke, M.F. Hvejsel, eds. Structures and Architecture, London: CRC Press 2025, 1040-1047, Open access at www.taylorfrancis.com



Jul 18 2025, 10:00 University of Genoa, IT
PhD Assessor at Dipartimento Architettura e Design Università di Genova’s defence of doctoral dissertations “On Megarchitectures” by Ayla Schiappacasse and “Il costo dell’architettura’ by Duccio Prassoli supervised by Giovanni Galli & Christiano Lepprato.



May 28 2025, Innsbruck, AT
PhD Assessor - Public defense of doctoral dissertation: “Genealogies of Affinity. Piranesi and Syncretic Architecture" by Giacomo Pala with Professors Peter Trummer (supervisor together with Giovanni Galli) and Tülay Atak.  



May 8-10 2025, Venice, IT
At Pre-opening of La Biennale di Venezia – 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura



Apr 3 2025, 14:45 Milan, IT, Politecnico BLDG 11 – AUID EXHIBITION
Book Presentation: Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau with Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti at the CA²RE Milano conference.



Apr 3-5 2025, CA2RE Conference, Milan, IT
Andreas is a member of the Scientific Commitee and peer for the 2025 CA²RE Milano conference on “Authorship” at POLIMI.



Feb 26 2025, Milan, IT 
Lecture “Mapping Continual Building – Typologies of Transformation” at POLIMI DAStU’s Architectural, Urban and Interior Design (AUID) PhD Program “Drawing on the Existing”.



Feb 6 2025, Las Vegas, NV 
Lecture “Building Types and Their Continual Transformation” at University of Nevada Las Vegas



Jan 22 2025 Innsbruck, AT
Guest crit at Innsbruck Studio “Stranger Theories” by Giacomo Pala and Tim Altenhof.



Jan 21 2025 Innsbruck, AT
Lecture “Typologies of Transformation” at University of Innsbruck - Architecture Theory



Nov 25 2024, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies” at Northumbria University Newcastle, UK. 



Nov 21-23 2024, Norwich, UK 
Lecture “Peripheral Bodies – Frankenstein Periphery” with Cameron McEwan at AHRA International Conference 2024 – Body Matters at University of the Arts, Norwich, UK. 



Nov 6 2024, Genoa, IT 
Lecture “Architectural Affordances & Typologies of Umbau” at Università di Genova, DAD - Dipartimento Architettura e Design - Doctoral School



Sep 9-10 2024 Ghent, BE 
Lecture “Typologies of Umbau” at As Found – Affective Restoration and Typological Strategies for Reuse conference curated by 
Caroline Voet and Mechthild Stuhlmacher at KU Leuven Campus Sint-Lucas. 



Sep 4-8 2024 Cres, CRO 
Lecture “Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus as Graz School of Architecture” at 4th Moise Architectural Seminar & Summer School Architecture and Philosophy hosted by Petar Bojanić & Snežana Vesnić of Khōrein – Journal for Architecture and Philosophy. 



July 24 Las Vegas, NV 
Visiting Professor Dr. Steffen Lehmann at UNLV University of Nevada Las Vegas. 



July 15 Los Angeles, CA 
Studio visit at Subtila – Jeff Kaplon’s Atwater office in East LA. 



June 8 2024 18:00 Steindorf at Lake Ossiach, AT
Exhibition “Was Gebäude lehren: Das Steinhaus” opens at Günther Domenig‘s Steinhaus. 



June 6 2024 FJK3, Vienna, AT
Revered Hermann Czech is guiding Gennaro Postiglione and me through his exhibition “Ungefähre Hauptrichtung” at FJK3 in Vienna.



Andreas Lechner is an Austrian architect, author and educator. He is Associate Professor of Design and Building Theory at TU Graz, an internationally active lecturer, and the author of numerous publications on typology, transformation, and architectural design.


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