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.
︎︎︎ Teaching
Selection of [︎︎︎Studio works ]
Summer 2025
Studio: Bachelor (3rd y.) St. Leonhard (Bachelor, TU Graz)
Seminar: Typology (Elective, TU Graz)
Lecture: Raumkonzepte und Raumwahrnehmung (Master)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Winter 2024/25
Studio: Bachelor (2nd y.) ADU - Accesory Dwelling Unit (Bachelor, TU Graz)
Seminar: Typology (Elective, TU Graz)
Workshop: one-week
Summer 2024
Seminar & Workshop: “Architectural Affordances”, Visiting Prof. at Politecnico di Milano (AUID PhD Program, POLIMI)
Studio: Villa Urbaine (Bachelor, 3rd y.)
Lecture: “Spatial Concepts and Spatial Experience” (Mandatory, Master)
Winter 2023/24
Studio: Steinhaus, Steinhof, Steindorf - G. Domenig’s “Steinhaus” (Bachelor 3rd y.)
Seminar: Typology (Elective)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Summer 2023
Seminar & Workshop “Counterintuitive Typologies”, Visiting Prof. at Politecnico di Milano (AUID PhD Program, POLIMI)
Studio: Klaviatur der Vorstadt (Bachelor, 3rd y.)
Lecture: “Spatial Concepts and Spatial Experience” (Mandatory, Master)
Seminar: Typology (Elective)
Winter 2022/23
Studio: Mixed-Use Multi-Form (Counterintuitive Typologies 3, Master)
Seminar: Typology (Elective)
Summer 2022
Seminar 'Building Typology and Design', University of Innsbruck, Visiting lecturer (Elective)
Studio: 15 Ecken, ein Haus, (Bachelor 3rd year)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Winter 2021/22
Studio: Education of an Architect (Counterintuitive Typologies 2, Master)
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 9th & last iteration)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Summer 2021
Studio: House of Grain (Bachelor 3rd y.)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Winter 2020/21
Studio: Counterintuitive Typologies (Master)
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 8th iteration)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Summer 2020
Studio: “X Rooms” together with Visiting Professor Anna Llonch from Cierto Estudio (Master)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Seminar: Typological Transformation (Elective)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Winter 2019/20
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 7th iteration)
Studio: Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance “DÖW” with Visiting Professor Johann Moser from BWM (Master)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Summer 2019
Studio: “Building a Palimpsest” together with visiting professors Jaume Mayol & Irène Pérez from TEd'A arquitectes (Mallorca, SP)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Seminar: Typological Transformation (Elective)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design for doctoral candidates
Winter 2018/19
Studio: “Grottenhof”, Mixed-use Residential, Sports and Recreation center (Master)
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 6th iteration)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Summer 2018
Studio: “Jakominimarkt” together with visting professor Job Floris from Monadnock (Rotterdam, NL)
Seminar: AK Wohnbau (Housing, Elective)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Winter 2017/18
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 5th iteration)
Seminar: AK Wohnbau (Housing, Elective)
Seminar: Design Methods (Elective)
Summer 2017
Studio: 'Grand Hotel Lopud” Extension & Renovation of 1930 Grand Hotel by Nicola Dobrovic on the island of Lopud (Croatia, Master)
Seminar: Potential-Program-Project (Elective)
AK Wohnbau 'After sprawl', seminar, design theory Potential-Program-Project, seminar
Winter 2016/17
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 4th iteration)
Workshop: Transformation Perimeter Block - one week design research (Bachelor)
Seminar: Architektur Bild Konsum (Elective)
Summer 2016
Studio: Pavillon for Graz-Reininghaus (Master)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Seminar: Potential-Program-Project (Elective)
Winter 2015/16
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 3rd iteration)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Summer 2015
Guest Crit: Genoa Summer School 3 at Jørn Utzon's Can Lis House, Portopetro (Mallorca, Spain)
Winter 2014/15
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 2nd iteration)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Workshop: Islands - one week design research – cartography Graz Urban Facts
Summer 2014
Workshop: Guest Professor at GSS - Genoa Summer School 2, University of Genoa, DAD
on two derelict psychiatric hospitals with Ido Avissar, Nicola Braghieri, Cherubino Gambardella, Andrea Gritti, Cédric Libert, Enric Massip Bosch, Morten Meldgaard, Enrico Molteni, Thomas Padmanabhan, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Franz Prati, Valter Scelsi & Andrea Zanderigo.
Studio: 'Campus University Golden Horn', Guest professor, Kadir Has University (Master)
Seminar: Potential-Program-Project (Elective)
Winter 2013/14
Lecture: Design & Building Typologies (12 mandatory lectures, Master, 1st iteration)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Summer 2013
Studio: Memorial - Remembrance site / Concentration camp KZ Loibl Nord (Bachelor, 3rd y.)
Winter 2012/13
Studio: Office Building Graz with CLT (Master)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Summer 2012
Studio: Urban Entertainment Center Grieskai (Bachelor 3rd y.)
Workshop: “Entrances” – one-week design research at Vienna ARE - Austrian Real Estate (Bachelor)
Studio: The Urban Paradox with visiting Professors Kersten Geers & Andrea Zanderigo (Master)
Winter 2011/12
Studio: Graz Perimeter Block Housing (Master)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Workshop: Exhibition design Forum Stadtpark with Heidrun Primas (Bachelor)
Summer 2011
Studio: Infill & Adaptive Reuse of 1960ies housing estates (Bachelor)
Winter 2010/11
Studio: Rooftop extensions on Graz perimeter blocks (Master)
Workshop: Mc Boulevard – one-week design research, Bachelor)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Summer 2010
Studio: Hafnerriegel - Transformation of a 1960ies high rise dorm (Entwerfen 4, Bachelor)
Winter 2009/10
Studio: Andreas Hofer Platz Graz (Master)
Seminar: Imagineering (Architektur-Bild-Konsum, Elective)
Summer 2009
Workshop: “Body Sieves”, Visiting Professor a Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (Cort R. Dinesen, Afdeling 6)
Core: Grundlagen der Gestaltung (1st year)
Winter 2008/09
Workshop: One-week studio – Adaptive Reuse of 19th cent. villa, Novigrad, Croatia.
Core: Grundlagen der Gestaltung (1st year)
Winter 2007/08 & Summer 2008
Core: Grundlagen der Gestaltung (1st year)
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