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May 9 2025 Venice, IT
Pre-opening of La Biennale di Venezia – 19. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
Apr 6 2025
As things unravel in the ever-shifting architecture of the digital polis, I have relocated my Instagram presence after being hacked to @a_alechner. You are warmly invited to follow the thread there. Much of the prior material—a kind of fragmented archive—remains housed at facebook.com/andreas.lechner, itself now a curious palimpsest. As for META, to say that institutional support was absent would be to grant it too generous a silence.
Apr 3 14:45 Milan, IT
Book Presentation Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau with Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti at the CA²RE Milano conference. Join us at Politecnico BLDG 11 – AUID EXHIBITION
Apr 3-5 2025, Milan, IT
Andreas is a member of the Scientific Commitee for the 2025 CA²RE Milano conference on “Authorship”.
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 15 2025, Update
︎︎︎ Book review ‘Mădălina Diaconu, Aesthetics of Weather’ for Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy in preparation. ︎︎︎ Essay ‘Continual Building – On Buildings and Discontinuous Peripheries’ for South-Korean Journal 건축평단 / Architectural Critics submitted.
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 UIBK Architecture Theory
Dec 31 2024 Napoli, IT
"Architectural Affordances - Typologies of Umbau” is published with Thymos Books see also https://re.public.polimi.it/handle/11311/1276931
Dec 10 2024 Graz, AT
Guest crit: Narrative Architecture studio "Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka’s Stories" by Daniel Gethmann and Petra Eckhard at TU Graz.
Nov 28 Graz, AT
Jury for invited, single-stage realization competition for Graz “Schörgelgasse” – see︎︎︎Results.
Nov 25 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies & Frankenstein Periphery” 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 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.
Oct 22 2024 15:00 Lancaster University, UK
Lecture on “The Future of Typology” at Lancaster School of Architecture.
Oct 18 2024 9:30 Milan, IT
Lecture on “Counterintuitive Typology” at Politecnico di Milano.
Oct 2 2024 13:00-14:00 Ghent, BE
Lecture on “Type” at Primary Structure, an initiative of GAFPA, led by Floris De Bruyn & Olivier Goethals at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture Sint-Lucas Ghent.
Sep 16 2024 Vienna & Graz, AT
Happy to announce that our Counterintuitive Typologies research group will be part of the FFG Collective Research project, EDGES funded by the Austrian Research Promotion for the next three years - more soon.
Sep 9-10 2024 Ghent, BE
Lecture “Typologies of Umbau” at Conference: As Found – Affective Restoration and Typological Strategies for Reuse 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 Subtila – Jeff Kaplon’s Atwater office in East LA.
July 2024, CA, AZ, UT, NV, CA – US Westcoast
Touring San Francisco, Monterey, Big Sur, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Los Angeles, San Diego, La Jolla, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree Park, Lake Havasu, Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Las Vegas, Boulder City, Death Valley, Yosemite National Park, Oakhearst, Modesto, San Francisco …
June 20 2024 Graz, AT
Final review of Studio “Villa urbaine” with guests Marion Wicher (WOW Architecture), Ena Kukić (E+D), Maike Gold (Counterintuitive Typologies) and Armin Stocker (TU Graz KOEN / Atelier Armin Stocker).
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 us personally through his exhibition “Ungefähre Hauptrichtung” at FJK3 in Vienna.
June 5 2024, Graz, AT
“Architektur. Bücher, Filme und Gespräche” – Symposium with Frida Grahn (USI Mendrisio), Georg Vrachliotis (TU Delft), Nicole Schwarz (Birkhäuser Berlin), Armin Stocker & Andreas Lechner (TU Graz).
May 23-26 2024 Aarhus, DK
Paper “Affordances of Architectural Typology” is presented by Maike Gold at the 2024 EAAE/ARCC Conference at Aarhus School of Architecture.
Mar 18 2024 10:00 Milan, IT
Presentation of “Affordances of Architectural Typologies” PhD Workshop from March 11 to 18 at Milan Politecnico, Bldg. 29 Carta, first floor, Campus Leonardo.
Mar 14 2024 14:30 Milan, IT
Andreas lectures on “Atlas of Affordances – Recent Typological Research” at Politecnico di Milano.
Feb 29 2024 18:30 Brussels, BE
Andreas is guest crit and lectures on “Counterintuitive Typologies” in dialogue with Studio Typologies by Prof. Gérald Ledent at UC Louvain – LOCI, Rue Henri Wafelaerts, 47-51, 1060 Saint-Gilles (Brussels).
Feb 07 2024 Braunschweig, GER
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies” – appointment procedure for TU Braunschweig chair “Entwerfen und Raumkomposition”.
Dec 07, 2023 Hamburg, GER
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies” – appointment procedure at Hamburg’s HCU Hafencity Universität for the chair of “Entwurf, Raum- und Gebäudelehre”.
Nov 15, 2023 Graz, AT
“Counterintuitive Typologies” – Andreas presents ongoing research at Graz Center of Sustainable Construction (GCSC).
Oct 25-27, 2023 Portsmouth, UK
“Drawing Attention to the Periphery” – Panel session and lecture for the AHRA International Conference 2023 Situated Ecologies of Care︎︎︎ at Portsmouth School of Architecture, UK with Cameron McEwan.
Oct 19, 2023 Graz, AT
Valentin Moser and Dennis Baumgartner are awarded for their respective Master’s theses (tutored by Andreas Lechner) at TU Graz Architecture Diploma prizes - Congratulations!
Oct 18, 2023 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies - Designing Uncertain Futures” at Northumbria University’s Design Research Group series of talks.
Oct 10, 2023
Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner’s article “Building on the greenbelt is central to solving the housing crisis – just look at how the edges of cities have changed“ is published in The Conversation.
Aug 27, 2023
Site launch – www.CounterintuitiveTypologies.com featuring Andreas’ research group with events, cooperations, theses and projects around the three-year research grant by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG.
July 3-6, 2023 Newcastle, UK
Research network meeting “Peripheries” at Northumbria University︎︎︎ hosted by Cameron McEwan, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
June 28, 2023 Innsbruck, AT
Andreas is guest crit in the final review of Studio E3 “Stranger Realism(s)” by Giacomo Pala & Tim Altenhof at Innsbruck University’s Institut für Architekturtheorie und Baugeschichte.
June 21-23, 2023 Berlin, GER
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies” at 9th Conference of Forum Architekturwissenschaft: „Im Notstand”︎︎︎ at TU Berlin.
June 15, 2023 Graz, AT
Final review of “Klaviatur der Vorstadt” with guests Mark Jenewein (Love Architecture & Urbanism, Graz/Berlin) and Armin Stocker (TU Graz KOEN / Atelier Armin Stocker).
May 11, 2023 Graz, AT
Cameron McEwan from Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK talks at TU Graz: "Peripheries – The Urban Periphery in the Era of the Anthropocene“.
May 11, 2023 Graz, AT
Midterm review of studio “Klaviatur der Vorstadt” with guest crit Dr. Cameron McEwan (UK).
May 11, 2023 Graz, AT
Andreas’ article “The Domenig-Tapes” is published in GAM 19 - Professionalism.
April 28, 2023 Naples, IT
Design Workshop / Crit - Studio Alberto Calderoni, Università Degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.
April 27, 2023 Naples, IT
Book presentation and discussion: „Design Thinking - Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology"at Università Degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, DiArc & D.Arch.
Mar 31, 2023 Milan, IT
Closing seminar at Politecnico di Milano DAStU Typology Affordances - Architecture beyond Function.
Mar 2023
Andreas is peer reviewer for Routledge publisher’s proposals in the “Built Environment Research” section.
Mar 20, 2023 Dortmund, GER
TU Dortmund – Lecture “Kontinuität und Wandel” appointment procedure for W3 chair “Grundlagen der Architektur”
Feb 21, 2023 Berlin, GER
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies” - appointment procedure for W3 “Architecture & Urban Typologies” chair at TU Berlin
Jan 30, 2023 Milan, IT 17:00
Lecture “Counterintuitive Typologies. Drawing Attention” at Milan Politecnico, Edificio 11, Room J.2, Via Ampere 2, Città studi.
Jan 30 - Feb 6, 2023 Milan, IT
“Counterintuitive Typologies” - Workshop at Milan Politecnico’s Doctoral School AUID
Jan 26, 2023 Graz, AT
Final Review of TU Graz Counterintuitive Typologies Master Studio "Mixed-Use Multi-Form“ with guest crits from Angelo Lunati (Onsitestudio, Polimi), Gennaro Postiglione (Polimi, DAStU), Alexander Passer (TU Graz AGHNB) & Andreas Trummer (TU Graz ITE)
Jan 12-28, 2023 Graz, AT
Project “Gratkorner” featured in group exhibition “Colours” by Diskursiv.xyz at Forum Stadtpark, Graz
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