Studio Andreas Lechner

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Sep 15-17, 2025, Pisa, IT
Presenting “Typologies of Transformation” at International Conference on Adaptive Reuse hosted by the University of Pisa at “Gipsoteca di Arte Antica”.

Aug 14, 2025, 16:00 EULiST Summer School August 2025, Hannover, DE
Lecture and Discussion, "Pedagogical approaches to transformation in Austria.”

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.

Jul 8-11 2025, Antwerp, BE
Our paper “Atlas of Typological Affordances – Drawing Architectural Research” is presented by Gennaro Postiglione at ICSA 2025 - REstructure REmaterialize REthink REuse - 6th International Conference on Structures and Architecture and will be published in the Architecture, Structures and Construction journal.

Jun 28 2025, UK-NL-AT
Richard Hall (General Office Architects, London), Hans van der Heijden (Hans van der Heijden Architecten, Amsterdam) and Andreas Lechner (Studio Andreas Lechner, Graz) continue their dialogue on the vicissitudes of type, typologies and drawing – this exchange will inform a forthcoming text at renowned platform Drawing Matter that focuses on the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice.

Winter Semester 2025/26, TU Berlin, DE
Prof. Lechner will be teaching “Typologies of Transformation” at TU Berlin FG Architekturtheorie .

Jun 11 2025, 18:00 BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin, DE
Discussion: “Constructive Disobedience & Typologies of Umbau” with Oliver Schruoffeneger, Matthias Ballestrem, Helga Blocksdorf, Katharina Benjamin and Andreas Lechner, moderated by Petra Kickenweitz and Armin Stocker (in German).

May 28 2025, 10:00 Studio Architekturtheorie, Innsbruck University, AT
PhD Assessor - Public defence of doctoral dissertation: “Genealogies of Affinity. Piranesi and Syncretic Architecture" by Giacomo Pala with Professors Peter Trummer and Tülay Atak.

May 23 2025, 17:30 Tischlerei Prödl, Styria AT
Andreas is a judge of the “Design Battle” within the course of Design Month Graz 2025.

May 21 2025, Milan, IT
Teaching Repetition – Valentina Noce’s interview of Andreas is published within the research project “DT2 – The Recovery Demand and the Educational Supply: A Design Toolkit for Design Teaching”, focussing on the pedagogical model of the design studio.

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

Apr 6 2025
After being hacked my Instagram presence is now located at @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 2025, 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, CA2RE Conference, 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

Nov 28 Graz, AT
Jury for invited, single-stage realization competition for Graz “Schörgelgasse” – see︎︎︎Results.

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 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.

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).

Andreas Lechner is an Austrian architect, professor of design and building typology at TU Graz and visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano.