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Andreas Lechner's expertise in typology and transformation also serves public decision-making, doctoral education and peer review. Between 2018 and 2025 he assessed interventions in Graz's UNESCO World Heritage centre. He supervises doctoral research at TU Graz and is regularly invited to sit on doctoral committees at European schools of architecture.


︎︎︎Expert Commission for the Historic Centre of Graz (ASVK)


2018–2025 · Voting member, Altstadt-Sachverständigenkommission Graz. Assessed architectural interventions in the historic centre of Graz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, under the Grazer Altstadterhaltungsgesetz.


︎︎︎Doctoral Supervision, TU Graz


  • Ena Kukić, Memoryscapes of Post-Yugoslavia: Toward a Typology of Monumental Semiosis. 2018–2025, defended 21 October 2025 with distinction. Assessing professors: Vedad Islambegović and Vladimir Kulić.


  • Sabine Kastner, Social and Sports Clubs in Buenos Aires (working title). Since 2024, in progress.



︎︎︎Doctoral Committees and Examinations


  • 2026 · TU Berlin, Guest reviewer at 21. PEP – Programm Entwurfsbasierte Promotion. Assessor at the PhD defence of Tobias Rabold, Un.Widmung. Supervisor: Ralf Pasel.


  • 2026 · KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Ghent. Jury member at the public PhD defence of Floris De Bruyn, Observations on Type: Typological Strategies for Reuse in Architectural Practice and Education. Supervisor: Martino Tattara; co-supervisor: Caroline Voet.


  • 2026 · Aarhus School of Architecture. PhD viva of Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard, Lasting Architecture in Practice.


  • 2025 · University of Innsbruck, Architecture Theory. PhD examiner for Giacomo Pala. Genealogies of Affinity: Piranesi and Syncretic Architecture. Supervisor: Peter Trummer and Giovanni Galli.


  • 2025 · Università di Genova, Dipartimento Architettura e Design. PhD assessor for Ayla Schiappacasse, On Megarchitectures, and Duccio Prassoli, Il costo dell'architettura. Supervisors: Giovanni Galli and Cristiano Lepratti. 


  • 2023 · Politecnico di Milano, DAStU. External PhD examiner for Beatrice Balducci, Safe Spaces - Exploring Design Possibilities in Preparing for Emergencies, Supervisor Alessandro Rocca. 


  • 2021 · TU Graz. PhD examiner for Wolfgang List.


  • 2019 · TU Graz. PhD examiner for Armin Stocker. 


︎︎︎Further Service


  • Appointment committees, TU Graz:
    Institute of Design and Building Typology (2025); Guest Professorship "Integral Architecture" (2020, 2022); Institute for Spatial Design (2019).

  • Research evaluation: FCT Portugal, national evaluator, Arts panel (2026); F.R.S.–FNRS Belgium, reviewer (2026).

  • Scientific committees: CA²RE Milano (2025); 11th DARA Symposium, Leibniz Universität Hannover (2022).

  • Juries: architecture competitions in the historic centre of Graz (2021, 2024); Creative Industries Styria "Design Battle" (2024, 2025).

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