︎︎︎Books, Journals & Articles
Andreas Lechner, Counterintuitive Typologies: Architecture & The Disposable City, forthcoming (2028).
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti, Maike Gold,
Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau (2025).
Andreas Lechner, Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology (2021).
Andreas Lechner
Counterintuitive Typologies: Architecture & The Disposable City
forthcoming (2028)
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 more communal possibilities for reuse under material, economic and regulatory constraints. ︎︎︎Type as research on civic futures.
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti, Maike Gold
Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau
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.
Andreas Lechner
Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology
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.
Andreas Lechner
Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre
2nd revised and extended edition, Zurich: Park Books 2021
Andreas Lechner
Entwurf einer architektonischen Gebäudelehre
Zurich: Park Books 2018
Editor
Peripheries–Peripherocene
The Journal of Architecture 31, no. 2, Special Issue
RIBA / Taylor & Francis, 2026
guest edited with Cameron McEwan
︎︎︎https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/31/2
While architecture has long known what to do with historic centres, the urban periphery — that murky Other of the city — has been dismissed as illegible and remains under-theorised even as it absorbs the greatest ecological consequences of urban growth during the present period now termed the Anthropocene ... The special issue contributions are organised across a near, distant, and hybrid periphery, examining peripheral conditions from Newcastle to Kyiv, Scotland's Central Belt, Graz to Berlin, boroughs in New York City, and elsewhere. Together the contributions set an agenda for architecture's disciplinary engagement with the periphery in the time of the Anthropocene.
Articles
2026
Andreas Lechner, “Counterintuitive typologies: Bernhard Ogrisek’s Drawing of Peripheral Intelligence in Greater Graz”, in: The Journal of Architecture, special issue on Peripheries–Peripherocene, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2026.2710521.
2026
Cameron McEwan, Andreas Lechner, “Introduction: Peripheries–Peripherocene”, in: The Journal of Architecture 31(2), special issue Peripheries–Peripherocene, 2026, 235–253, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2026.2710509.
2026
Keller Easterling, Andreas Lechner, Cameron McEwan, “Infrastructure Space and the Global Periphery: Keller Easterling in Conversation with Andreas Lechner and Cameron McEwan”, in: The Journal of Architecture 31(2), special issue Peripheries–Peripherocene, 2026, 282–293, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2026.2710516.
2026
Diana Agrest, Mario Gandelsonas, Cameron McEwan, Andreas Lechner, “Nature Is the Unconscious of the Periphery: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas in Conversation with Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner”, in: The Journal of Architecture 31(2), special issue Peripheries–Peripherocene, 2026, 254–281, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2026.2710520.
2026
Andreas Lechner, “Typological Affordances: Drawing Adaptions Over Time”, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Reuse, Vol. 1, STH Press 2026, 572–580, https://doi.org/10.65686/XOTV2142.
2026
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Maike Gold, Francesca Serrazanetti, „Affordances of Architectural Typology,“in: Claus Peder Pedersen, Nanna Hagedorn Olsen, Anders Kruse Aagaard, eds. Proceedings EAAE/ARCC Conference 2024 –Architecture Into the Unknown, Aarhus: European Association of Architectural Education 2026, 186–193, https://doi.org/10.51588/e8ph8323 ︎︎︎Open Acess.
2025
Andreas Lechner, “Book review: Mădălina Diaconu, Aesthetics of Weather, New York: Bloomsbury 2024”, in: Khōrein – Journal for Architecture and Philosophy, 3(2), 2025, 241-245. Open Acess.
2025
Cameron McEwan, Andreas Lechner: “Drawing Out the Imaginal Periphery: Towards a Theory”, in: Architecture and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2025.2541506.
2025
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, „Atlas of Typological Affordances – Drawing Architectural Research”, in: Mario Rinke, Marie Frier Hvejsel, eds. Structures and Architecture, London: CRC Press 2025, 1040-1047, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003658641-124 Open access.
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.
2025
Andreas Lechner, Richard Hall, Hans van der Heijden, “Typology: A Conversation”, in: Drawing Matter Journal, 13 August 2025, drawingmatter.org/typology-a-conversation.
2024
Andreas Lechner, Daniel Gethmann: “Günther Domenig’s Steinhaus: A workshop building for the Graz School of Architecture”, in: STOÀ. Anno IV 3/3 (2024), 108-120.
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.
2022
Andreas Lechner, “A Counterintuitive Product”, in: Margitta Buchert ed. Products of Reflexive Design, Berlin: Jovis 2022, 118-135.
Editorships
Archnet–IJAR Journal of Architectural Research: Special Issue „Hybrid Practices: Practice/Design/Theory-Based Research in Architecture“ guest editor with Cameron McEwan, forthcoming. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
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
PhD Supervisor
—Ena Kukić
Memoryscapes of Post-Yugoslavia - Toward a Typology of Monumental Semiosis
This dissertation investigates how memory is inscribed in space through architectural form and spatial presence in the post-Yugoslav context: Memoryscapes of Post-Yugoslavia - Toward a Typology of Monumental Semiosis
PhD defended Oct. 2025
Supervisor: Andreas Lechner
Doctoral School TU Graz
—Sabine Kastner
Sports and Social Clubs - A Buenos Aires Typology
What impulses for contemporary typological questions in architecture, particularly concerning transformation and re-development, can be drawn from Argentinian Sports and Social Clubs - A Buenos Aires Typology.
Ongoing since 2025
PhD Candidate: Sabine Kastner
Supervisor: Andreas Lechner
Doctoral School TU Graz
Forthcoming Articles
Lechner, Andreas, and Gennaro Postiglione. “Architectural Affordances – Typology and Temporal Co-Authorship.” In The As Found – Architecture Dialogues: On Collaborations, Affective Restoration and Typological Strategies of Reuse, edited by Caroline Voet, Mechthild Stuhlmacher and Eireen Schreurs. Leuven: Leuven University Press, [Publication announced for 2026.]
Lechner, Andreas, and Cameron McEwan. “Peripheral Bodies: Frankenstein Periphery as a Critical Framework.” Architecture and Culture, accepted for publication [Publication announced for 2026].
Lechner, Andreas, and Maike Gold. “Counterintuitive Typologies – Re-assessing Hybridity in Architecture.” In Forum Architekturwissenschaft, Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, [Publication announced for 2025].
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