Studio (Bio)
Andreas Lechner is an Austrian architect and Associate Professor at TU Graz, with a wealth of professional, teaching, and research experience. He is the author of the award-winning book Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology (Park Books, Zurich 2021). Lechner lectures and teaches internationally and serves as a visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano. His research group, Counterintuitive Typologies, is supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. He is also a co-editor of Graz Architecture Magazine and an upcoming special issue of The Journal of Architecture.
︎︎︎Publications
1 Books
2025 Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti, Maike Gold, Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau, Naples: Thymos Books 2025
2021 Andreas Lechner, Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology, Zurich: Park Books 2021
[reviewed in Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 1/46 (2022), doi.org/10.3846/jau.2022.16904 ]
2021 Andreas Lechner, Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre, 2nd revised and extended edition, Zurich: Park Books 2021
2018 Andreas Lechner, Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre, Zurich: Park Books 2018
2 Edited Volumes, Co-Editor
[2026] The Journal of Architecture, Special Issue „Peripheries – Peripherocene“, co-editor with Cameron McEwan (2026).
[2026] International Journal of Architectural Research: Archnet–IJAR, Special Issue „Hybrid Practices: Practice/Design/Theory-Based Research in Architecture“ co-editor with Cameron McEwan (2026).
[2025] GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 21, Confronting the Environmental Crisis.
2024 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 20, The Infraordinary (2024).
2023 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 19, Professionalism (2023).
2022 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 18, Beyond the Institution (2022).
2021 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 17, Wood. Rethinking Material (2021).
2020 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 16, ungewohnt − un/common (2020).
2019 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 15, Territorial Justice (2019).
2018 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 14, Exhibiting Matters (2018).
2013 Kersten Geers, Andreas Lechner et al. eds. The Urban Paradox – Architecture Without Content, Graz: Verlag TU Graz 2013.
2012 GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 8, Dense Cities – Architecture for Living Closer Together, Berlin New York: Springer 2012.
2012 Andreas Lechner et al. eds. Dense Cities – Materialien zu Schwerpunkten am Institut für Gebäudelehre, Graz: Verlag TU Graz 2012.
3 Refereed Journal Articles · Book Chapters · Conference Proceedings · Book Reviews
[2025] Andreas Lechner, “Book review: Mădălina Diaconu, Aesthetics of Weather, New York: Bloomsbury 2024”, Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy (in press).
[2025] Andreas Lechner, “Continual Building – On Buildings and Discontinuous Peripheries”, in: 건축평단 / Architectural Critics – South Korea 25, (in press / 2025).
[2025] Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione: “Atlas of Typological Affordances – Drawing Architectural Research”, ICSA2025 - 6th International Conference on Structures and Architecture – REstructure REmaterialize REthink REuse, 8-11 July 2025 | University of Antwerp, Belgium (Accepted)
[2025] Andreas Lechner, Maike Gold: “Typologies of Transformation”, in: Forum Architekturwissenschaft 7, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin 2025 (in press / 2025).
[2025] Cameron McEwan, Andreas Lechner: “Drawing Out the Imaginal Periphery”, in: Architecture and Culture (Accepted 2025)
[2025] Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione: “Affordances of Architectural Typology”, in Lechner, A. & Postiglione, G. et al eds. Architectural Affordances - Typologies of Umbau, Naples: Thymos Books 2025, 8-15.
2024 Daniel Gethmann, Andreas Lechner: “Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus: A workshop building for the Graz School of Architecture”, in: STOÀ. Anno IV 3/3 (2024), 108-120.
2024 Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione et al.: “Affordances of Architectural Typologies”, EAAE Annual Conference Proceedings, Aarhus 2024.
2024 Laura Suvieri, Andreas Lechner et al.: “Typological adaptive reuse of contemporary European commercial derelicts”, in: Cardaci , A., Picchio, F. & Versaci, A. eds.: Conference Reuso 2024: Documentazione, restauro e rigenerazione sostenibile del patrimonio costruito. Bergamo 2024, 661-671.
2023 Andreas Lechner, “The Domenig Tapes”, in: GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 19, Berlin: Jovis 2023, 72-85, doi.org/10.1515/9783986120078-019, Open Access
2022 Andreas Lechner, “A Counterintuitive Product”, in: Margitta Buchert ed. Products of Reflexive Design, Berlin: Jovis 2022, 118-135 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598346-006.
2021 Andreas Lechner, “Book Review: Stanislaus von Moos, Martino Stierli eds.: Eyes That Saw –Architecture after Las Vegas, New Haven/Zurich: 2020”, in: GAM Architecture Magazine 17, Berlin: Jovis 2021, 273-276.
2013 Andreas Lechner, “Topology - On the Design of Contemporary Landscape (Conference Review ETH Zurich)”, in: JoLA – Journal of Landscape Architecture, 15 (2013), 89.
2012 Andreas Lechner, „Determining Indeterminacies“, In: San Rocco. #5 (2012), 136-142.
2010 Andreas Lechner, „Werbung ohne Bedeutung – Superflat Surplus“, in: UmBau, 25 (2010), 108-120.
2009 Andreas Lechner, “The Standardization of the Nonstandard, or the Depth of the Surface”, in: GAM - Architecture Magazine 6, Wien/New York: Springer 2009, 70–85.
4 Others
2024 Andreas Lechner, Introduction (‘I see your true colors’), in: Colors: Diskursiv No. 2, Berlin: Jovis Verlag 2024, 8-10 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986121372-001.
2023 Cameron McEwan , Andreas Lechner, “Building on the greenbelt is central to solving the housing crisis”, in: The Conversation (10. Oct. 2023).
2023 Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, “Affordances of Architectural Typologies: A Call for Papers (by Drawings)”, European Architectural History Network, HNet, TACK, et al., Open Access 2023.
2023 Andreas Lechner, Maike Gold, “Innovationspotenzial zur nachhaltigen Transformation von Gewerbe- und Einzelhandelsstandorten”, in: GAM 15. Territorial Justice, Berlin: 2019, 175-176.
2022 Interviewee Andreas Lechner, Hannes Ch. Steinmann: Gebäudelehre, in: Building Times 10 (2022).
2022 Interviewee Andreas Lechner: “Counterintuitive Typologies: Andreas Lechner über kontraintuitive Typologien in Lehre, Forschung und Praxis.” Interview Natalie Pawlik, Campus, Baunetz Media, 28 Sept 2022, Open Access
2019 Andreas Lechner, “Introduction to Dossier Joost Meuwissen“, in: GAM 15. Territorial Justice, Berlin: 2019, 214.
2018 Andreas Lechner, "There are a lot of architects, we're all good – Ettore Sottsass 2000”, in: Petra Kickenweitz, Ziga Kreševič, Armin Stocker, eds. YOSTAR: Young Styrian Architecture, Verlag der TU Graz 2018, 20-25.
2018 Studio Andreas Lechner: “Baroque Villa”, Divisare Journal 187, 2018.
2016 Studio Andreas Lechner: “Baroque Villa”, Divisare, frontpage feature, 2016.
2016 Studio Andreas Lechner: “Baroque Villa”, featured on Subtilitas.com, 2016.
2015 Andreas Lechner, “Prospective Archeologies”, in: Vittorio Pizzigoni, Valter Scelsi eds.: Psychiatric Hospitals, Genoa: Araldica 2015, 72-77.
2014 Andreas Lechner: Guest Curator for www.ofHouses.com, Online 2014.
2013 Andreas Lechner “Herausforderungen der architektonischen Integration von Solartechnologien”, in: Erneuerbare Energie, 1 (2013), 28–31.
2013 Interviewee, Matthew Barac: “Pedagogy - Graz University of Technology, Austria”, The Architectural Review, July (2013), 108-109.
2012 Andreas Lechner “Solar Energy in the City – Analysis and Evaluation of Economic, Energy and Architectural Quality in Urban Solar Energy Buildings”,in: GAM. Achitecture Magazine, 10 (2012), Wien/New York: Springer 2012, 313–314.
2012 Andreas Lechner: “ European Agriculture - Energy Park Graz”, in: GAM – Graz Achitecture Magazine 7, Wien/New York: Springer 2012, 345.
2011 Andreas Lechner et al.: „Analyse und Bewertung der energetischen, ökonomischen und architektonischen Qualität urbaner Solararchitektur“, in: Wettbewerbe, 297-298 (2011), 12-15.
2011 Andreas Lechner: “Zur sinnlichen Materialität von Beton in Fassade und Gebäudehülle”, in: Haus der Architektur (ed.): Haus der Architektur Reader 2010, Wien: Metroverlag 2011, 52-54.
2010 Andreas Lechner: “European Agriculture-Energy Park Graz”, in: Europan Europe, ed. Europan 10 - European Results -Inventing Urbanity, Paris: Europan 2010, 77-78.
2009 Andreas Lechner: “Façades between blank typologies and energy generation”, in: GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 6, Wien/New York: Springer 2009, 313-314.
2007 Andreas Lechner, Tiz Schaffer: “Selbst ist der Architekt”, Falter 42/2007.
2007 Andreas Lechner, Tiz Schaffer: “Kunst und Kommerz”, Falter 45/2007.
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