Publications ︎︎︎Books & Ed. Volumes
Publications ︎︎︎Books & Ed. Volumes
Thinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology
Andreas Lechner
Zurich: Park Books, 2021 · ISBN 978-3-03860-246-0
Thinking Design investigates the spatial relationships that recur across architecture’s diverse forms, periods and programmes. Organised around three essays—Tectonics, Type and Topos—it brings together comparative drawings of 144 buildings and projects across twelve public building types. Plans, sections and elevations establish a common basis for examining variation and continuity, making typology available as both a body of disciplinary knowledge and an instrument of design. Drawing becomes a means of identifying relationships that can inform further architectural transformations.
︎︎︎Type as disciplinary memory.
Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti and Maike Gold, eds.
Naples: Thymos Books, 2025 · ISBN 978-88-32072-56-3
Architectural Affordances examines how buildings acquire, retain and lose capacities for transformation over time. A shared drawing protocol distinguishes retained fabric, demolition and addition, tracing successive material and functional changes in plan, section and elevation. These comparisons reveal how earlier design decisions enable and constrain later interventions. Typology becomes a way of reading the relationship between spatial persistence and changing use, while architectural affordances describe possibilities that emerge between a building’s material configuration and the demands placed upon it.
︎︎︎Type as temporal capacity.
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Counterintuitive Typologies – Architecture and the Disposable City
Andreas Lechner
Book in development · Working title
Counterintuitive Typologies examines peripheral buildings whose spatial and constructive systems outlast the economic regimes that produced them. Shopping centres, logistics halls and parking decks become sites for investigating how repetition, large spans and programmatic indifference may support unforeseen uses, while deep plans and infrastructural dependencies can limit them. Moving through territory, type and transformation, the book develops typology as a method for distinguishing contingent programmes from persistent structures and testing possibilities for reuse under material, economic and regulatory constraints.
︎︎︎Type as latent possibility.
Counterintuitive Typologies – Architecture and the Disposable City
Andreas Lechner
Book in development · Working title
Counterintuitive Typologies examines peripheral buildings whose spatial and constructive systems outlast the economic regimes that produced them. Shopping centres, logistics halls and parking decks become sites for investigating how repetition, large spans and programmatic indifference may support unforeseen uses, while deep plans and infrastructural dependencies can limit them. Moving through territory, type and transformation, the book develops typology as a method for distinguishing contingent programmes from persistent structures and testing possibilities for reuse under material, economic and regulatory constraints.
︎︎︎Type as latent possibility.
Andreas Lechner
Book in development · Working title
Counterintuitive Typologies examines peripheral buildings whose spatial and constructive systems outlast the economic regimes that produced them. Shopping centres, logistics halls and parking decks become sites for investigating how repetition, large spans and programmatic indifference may support unforeseen uses, while deep plans and infrastructural dependencies can limit them. Moving through territory, type and transformation, the book develops typology as a method for distinguishing contingent programmes from persistent structures and testing possibilities for reuse under material, economic and regulatory constraints.
︎︎︎Type as latent possibility.
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Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre
Andreas Lechner
Zurich: Park Books, 2021 · Second revised and extended edition; first published in 2018 · ISBN 978-3-03860-266-8
The German-language counterpart to Thinking Design develops an architectural building typology through comparative drawings of 144 buildings and projects. Essays on tectonics, type and topos connect the study of recurring spatial relationships with architectural judgement and design.
︎︎︎Zusammenfassung zur zweiten Auflage (2022)
︎︎︎Order at Park Books
Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre
Andreas Lechner
Zurich: Park Books, 2021 · Second revised and extended edition; first published in 2018 · ISBN 978-3-03860-266-8
The German-language counterpart to Thinking Design develops an architectural building typology through comparative drawings of 144 buildings and projects. Essays on tectonics, type and topos connect the study of recurring spatial relationships with architectural judgement and design.
︎︎︎Zusammenfassung zur zweiten Auflage (2022)
︎︎︎Order at Park Books
Andreas Lechner
Zurich: Park Books, 2021 · Second revised and extended edition; first published in 2018 · ISBN 978-3-03860-266-8
The German-language counterpart to Thinking Design develops an architectural building typology through comparative drawings of 144 buildings and projects. Essays on tectonics, type and topos connect the study of recurring spatial relationships with architectural judgement and design.
︎︎︎Zusammenfassung zur zweiten Auflage (2022)
︎︎︎Order at Park Books
︎︎︎Edited Volumes & Journal Issues
[2027]
Hybrid Practices: Practice/Design/Theory-Based Research in Architecture
Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner, guest eds.
Archnet–IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, special issue · Emerald, 2027 · Forthcoming
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Peripheries–Peripherocene
Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner, guest eds.
The Journal of Architecture 31, no. 2 · RIBA / Taylor & Francis, 2026
︎︎︎https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/31/2
Peripheries–Peripherocene
Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner, guest eds.
The Journal of Architecture 31, no. 2 · RIBA / Taylor & Francis, 2026
︎︎︎https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/31/2
Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner, guest eds.
The Journal of Architecture 31, no. 2 · RIBA / Taylor & Francis, 2026
︎︎︎https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/31/2
GAM 22 — Synergies: Building Collaborations in Architectural Research
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 22 · Berlin: Jovis, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986123260
GAM 21 — Confronting the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches in Architecture
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 21 · Berlin: Jovis, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986121891
GAM 20 — The Infraordinary
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 20 · Berlin: Jovis, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986120665
GAM 19 — Professionalism
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 19 · Berlin: Jovis, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783986120078
GAM 18 — Beyond the Institution: Transforming the Learning Environment in Architectural Education
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 18 · Berlin: Jovis, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868599947
GAM 17 — Wood: Rethinking Material
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 17 · Berlin: Jovis, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868599633
GAM 16 — gewohnt: un/common
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 16 · Berlin: Jovis, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868599480.
GAM 15 — Territorial Justice
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 15 · Berlin: Jovis, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598391
GAM 14 — Exhibiting Matter
Andreas Lechner, co-editor and book review editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 14 · Berlin: Jovis, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598384
The Urban Paradox – Architecture Without Content
Kersten Geers, Andreas Lechner et al., eds.
Graz: Verlag der TU Graz, 2013
GAM 8 — Dense Cities: Architecture for Living Closer Together
Andreas Lechner, co-guest editor
GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 8 · Berlin / New York: Springer, 2012
Dense Cities – Materialien zu Schwerpunkten am Institut für Gebäudelehre
Andreas Lechner, co-editor
Graz: Verlag der TU Graz, 2012
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