12 lectures every winter semester from 2013 to 2022
For the first time held in 2013, Andreas’ lecture on “Design & Building Typologies” featured 12 typologies that were explored on 12 Mondays in the winter term. Continual research on this lecture was also central for my post-doctoral habilitation thesis within my tenure track.
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I started researching for the lectures using this tentative calendar structure. Twelve typologies - theater, museum, library, state, second row with office, recreation, religion and retail, third row with production/industry, education, surveillance and hospital, with some 30 projects in each. In every lecture several architectural examples were discussed in detail, featuring plans and section prominently, highlighting characteristics, typical constellations, returning types and compositions and (more or less innovative) usages of old or new building elements and techniques throughout centuries of (mainly Western) architecture. Housing and residential use is excluded from these 12 civic typologes / public buildings as there is an own institute and chair of housing (!) at TU Graz. This mandatory lecture on public buildings in the architecture master was nominated by architecture students for the 2017-18 “Excellence in Teaching”-Award of TU Graz and became a finalist.
I was tenured in 2017 and published a revised version of my habilitation thesis (2016) with Zurich Park Books in German in 2018: “Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre”. A revised and extended second German version was published in 2021 together with a first English version entitled “Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology.”
After lecturing online during the pandemic, the master lecture was held for the last time in the winter semester of 2021/22. In the new master of architecture curriculum at TU Graz this lecture has been replaced by lecture series that are with more or less thematic coordination held by several institutes within a semester – opinion withheld.
THEATER
MUSEUM
LIBRARY
STATE
I started researching for the lectures using this tentative calendar structure. Twelve typologies - theater, museum, library, state, second row with office, recreation, religion and retail, third row with production/industry, education, surveillance and hospital, with some 30 projects in each. In every lecture several architectural examples were discussed in detail, featuring plans and section prominently, highlighting characteristics, typical constellations, returning types and compositions and (more or less innovative) usages of old or new building elements and techniques throughout centuries of (mainly Western) architecture. Housing and residential use is excluded from these 12 civic typologes / public buildings as there is an own institute and chair of housing (!) at TU Graz. This mandatory lecture on public buildings in the architecture master was nominated by architecture students for the 2017-18 “Excellence in Teaching”-Award of TU Graz and became a finalist.
I was tenured in 2017 and published a revised version of my habilitation thesis (2016) with Zurich Park Books in German in 2018: “Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre”. A revised and extended second German version was published in 2021 together with a first English version entitled “Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology.”
After lecturing online during the pandemic, the master lecture was held for the last time in the winter semester of 2021/22. In the new master of architecture curriculum at TU Graz this lecture has been replaced by lecture series that are with more or less thematic coordination held by several institutes within a semester – opinion withheld.
THEATER
MUSEUM
LIBRARY
STATE
OFFICE
RECREATION
RELIGION
RETAIL
FACTORY
EDUCATION
SURVEILLANCE
HOSPITAL
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8010 Graz, Austria
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