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Dr. Andreas Lechner is an Austrian architect and associate professor whose research projects explore typology as a mode of architectural knowledge—situated between form, use, ecology, and transformation. His work foregrounds adaptive reuse, spatial affordances, and the productive re-reading of existing structures as central architectural concerns. He is the author of the award-winning Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology (Park Books, Zurich, 2021), lectures widely at international institutions, and serves as co-editor of GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine and an upcoming special issue of The Journal of Architecture (RIBA / Taylor & Francis).
︎︎︎Master’s Theses (tutored)  





Katarina Lovric:
Motel Soline 2.0 – Revitalization of the Soline Motel in Trogir 

#tourism #transformation #preservation 

TU Graz, 2026 (66)


Nuhi Ismaili:
Future Nostalgia

#urbandesign #adaptivereuse #mixeduse

TU Graz, 2025 (65)


Kerstin Neuhold, Christina Radl:
Typologie im Wandel – Umbau und Zukunft der Wiener Ankerbrotfabrik

#urbandesign #adaptivereuse #mixeduse

TU Graz, 2025 (64)



Julia Gaal:
Wohn-Ressource Leerstand? Umbau eines Fachmarktzentrums der 2000er Jahre 

#Urban Design #Housing
#Adaptive Reuse

TU Graz, 2025 (63)


Chiara Stepanek:
Dichte Verortung - Ein starker Kern für Neumarkt am Wallersee

#Urban Design #Mixed Use #Housing

TU Graz, 2025 (62)


Lukas Böß:
Die Brücken von Radolfzell

#Infrastructure
#Urban Design

TU Graz, 2024 (61)
Finalist Young MIES EU award 






Moritz Zachhuber:
Resilienz - von Konsumwüste zu Bildungsoase

#AdaptiveReuse
#Education
#UrbanDesign

TU Graz, 2024 (60)


Tobias Hirtler:
Scuderie de Montel Milan

#Adaptive Reuse
#Housing

TU Graz, 2024 (59)
Double Degree
Politecnico di Milano


Matthias Guger:
Transformation of Urban Industrial Premises

#Adaptive Reuse
#Mixed-Use
#Infill

TU Graz, 2024 (58)



Elisabeth Albrecht-Krenn:
Burnout Clinic

#Healthcare
#Campus

TU Graz, 2024 (57)



Valentin Moser:
Die Summe einzelner Teile

︎GAD Award 2023

#AdaptiveReuse
#Mixed-Use #Campus 

TU Graz, 2023 (56)


Dennis Baumgartner:
Simple et radical

︎GAD Award 2023

#Adaptive Reuse
#Commercial
#Hospitality

TU Graz, 2023 (55)




Virginia Capone:
Building on the Built - A view on Typological Affordances

#Adaptive Reuse
#Mixed-Use
#Infill

TU Graz, 2023 (54)

Double Degree
Politecnico di Milano

 
Paula Möller:
(Un)Ordnung – Periphere Räume in Transformation

#Infill
#Residential
#Agriculture 

TU Graz, 2023 (53) 


Katharina Huber:
Unter einem Dach

#Redevelopment
#Tourism
#Hospitality

TU Graz, 2023 (52)



Bernhard Ogrisek:
The Infra-Ordinary – Alltagsfragmente des Grazer Umlands

#mapping
#drawing

TU Graz, 2022 (51)


Anna Lena Granitzer:
Knappenhaus im Drautal

#Renovation
#Tourism

TU Graz, 2022 (50)


Michael Karnutsch:
Wohn- und Freizeitpark Grenzgasse

︎GAD Award 2022

#Infill #UrbanDesign
#Residential

TU Graz, 2022 (49)



Zerina Dzubur:
Der Spanische Platz in Mostar

#Urban Design
#Mixed-Use
#Infill

TU Graz, 2022

(48)


Caroline Schmidhofer:
Lendhafen

#Adaptive Reuse
#Mixed-Use
#Heritage

TU Graz, 2022

Double Degree
Politecnico di Milano

(47)


Thomas Rogl:
Kongresszentrum Bad Gastein

Redevelopement and Retrofitting of Gerhard Garstenauer’s brutalist masterpiece

TU Graz, 2022 (46)



Matthias Johannes Holzner:
Club Caracalla

#Monument
#Speculation
#CounterintuitiveTypologies (1/12)

TU Graz, 2021 (45)


Sebastian Reiter:
Museumsarchitektur

#Adaptive Reuse
#Monument

TU Graz, 2021 (44)


Bettina Jenner:
B[r]aukunst 

#Production
#Hospitality

TU Graz, 2021 (43)




Maike Gold:
Grammatik einer Industrielandschaft

︎ GAD Awards 2021

#Mapping
#Drawing
#CounterintuitiveTypologies (2/12)

TU Graz, 2020 (42)


Ajna Babahmetović:
Houses at Home. Architecture of Displacement

#Analysis
#Mapping

TU Graz, 2020 (41)


Markus Pöll:
Stadtquartier Jakominiplatz

#Urban Design
#Mixed-Use
#CounterintuitiveTypologies (3/12)

TU Graz, 2020 (40)



Jakob Zöbl:
Palimpsest 

︎1st Prize GAD Awards 2020

#Infrastructure
#Monument
#CounterintuitiveTypologies (4/12)

TU Graz, 2020 (39)


Anna Müller:
Ein Hotel im Wandel

#Infill
#Hospitality
#Tourism

TU Graz, 2020 (38)


Sabrina Kraßnig:
Nach dem Film - Ein Weiterdenken im Kinoquartier St. Ruprecht

#Infill
#Mixed-Use
#Adaptive Reuse

TU Graz, 2020 (37)



Katharina Toplitsch:
365 Tage Klopeiner See

#Infill
#Hospitality
#Tourism

TU Graz, 2020 (36)


Katharina Scharler:
Baden am Bodensee

#Recreation
#Infrastructure

TU Graz, 2020 (35)


Anna-Lena Proksch:
hortus patens

#Infill
#Mixed-Use
#Urban Design
#CounterintuitiveTypologies (5/12)

TU Graz, 2020 (34)



Georg Scherrer:
Forum Schiffslände

#Infill
#Mixed-Use
#Urban Design

TU Graz, 2020 (33)


Johann Quechenberger:
Bauen in der Mitte

#Infill
#Mixed-Use
#Urban Design

TU Graz, 2019 (32)


Katie Filek:
Stadtbibliothek - A reading of the city and a library in the park for the historic city of Graz

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (6/12)

TU Graz, 2019 (31)
Politecnico di Milano, 2019



Andrea Pekovic:
Centraal Beheer Reloaded  

#Adaptive Reuse
#Mixed-Use
#Redevelopment

TU Graz, 2019 (30)


Stefan Weirauch:
Sportcampus Rosenhain    

#Sports
#Infrastructure
#Mixed-Use

TU Graz, 2019 (29)


Stefan Hutterer:
Konversion oder Ersatzneubau Telekom-Tower Graz

#Design Research
#Speculation
#Mixed-Use

TU Graz, 2019 (28)



Valentina Lovric:
The Townhouse in the Historic City Centre of Salzburg

#Urban Design
#Mixed-Use
#Redevelopment

TU Graz, 2019 (27)



Stefan Wrana: 
Hospital Ennstal Styria. Architecture for health and well-being

#Healthcare
#Campus

TU Graz, 2019 (26)



Therese Eberl: 
TSY – Urban Sprawl in Melbourne

#Urban Design
#Mixed-Use
#Speculation

TU Graz, 2018 (25)



Antun Jankovic:
Perpetual Peace. An architectural sketch

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (7/12)

TU Graz, 2018 (24)


Agnes Nagler:
The presence of the past – development of Döllersheim memorial

TU Graz, 2018 (23)


Caroline Leixner:
Seefort Mamula – Observing & staging a historic island fortress in Montenegro

TU Graz, 2018 (22)



Teresa Weigel:
Milk and honey – A leisure environment at Edersee

TU Graz, 2018 (21)


Stefan Perperschlager:
Guilt and innocence – Learning from a Biedermeier house in Braunau

TU Graz, 2018 (20)



Rebekka Hirschberg:
YYZ HKG. A Tale of Two Cities

︎ Vimeo

TU Graz, 2017 (18)


Lisa Marie Hafner:
Hong Kong Twin Factory. A Memory Lesson in Architecture 

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (9/12)

TU Graz, 2017 (17)


Matthias Wild:
Factory for Collective Dwelling TU Graz, 2017 (16)



Alexander Gebetsroither:
I-710/I-105 #more than infrastructure 

︎World‘s best graduation thesis – Archiprix Hunter Douglas Award 2017

︎GAD Awards 2016

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (10/12)

TU Graz, 2016 (15)


Thomas Hörmann:
Replikation – Model for a new municipal centrality in the suburban landscape 

︎GAD Awards 2017

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (11/12)

TU Graz, 2016 (14)


Helena Beljan & Nikola Jankovic:
Fiat Claustrum. A monastery for the Anachorets in Split

TU Graz, 2016 (13) 



Vedran Zonic: 
Sveucilisna Bolnica Zagreb – transformation of a hospital ruin from 1980

TU Graz, 2016 (12)


Morana Mazuran:
Large form Novi Zagreb

TU Graz, 2016 (11)


Christoph W. Pirker: 
Analogue landscape. Approaches to the lost space of the indefinite

︎1st Prize GAD Awards 2016

TU Graz, 2015 (10)



Tobias Gruber:
Naš Dom – Parliament building for Bosnia & Herzegovina

#CounterintuitiveTypologies (12/12)

TU Graz, 2015 (9)


Simon Oberhofer:
Another Istanbul 

TU Graz 2014 (8)


Herwig Baumgartner:
On architectures of a past future

TU Graz, 2014 (7)



Nadia Degasperi:
Building From Ruins – Transforming the listed Grand Hotel ‘Wildbad Innichen’

TU Graz, 2014 (6)

Adina Camhy:
Remnants of an Absence - Approaching the site of former concentration camp Loibl/Ljubelj North

TU Graz, 2014 (5)


Alexandra Isele:
Townhouses Eisenerz   

TU Graz, 2013 (4)


Sebastian Jenull & Sandra Tantscher: Dietrichs-Quartier – Transformation of a perimeter block

TU Graz, 2012 (3)

Sarina Abraham:
re:design:block: Graz St. Peter perimeter

TU Graz, 2012 (2)

Christoph Simschitz:
H53 High-density housing 

TU Graz, 2012 (1)

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