Books
[ Andreas Lechner, Counterintuitive Typologies: Architecture & The Disposable City, forthcoming (2028)]
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti, Maike Gold
Architectural Affordances – Typologies of Umbau
Naples: Thymos Books, 2025
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Andreas Lechner
Thinking Design: Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology
Zurich: Park Books, 2021
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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
Peer reviewed
2026
Andreas Lechner, “Four Blank Walls”, in: Log, 66 – Walls, ed. by Cynthia Davidson, New York: Anyone Corporation, 111-115.
2026
Andreas Lechner, Gennaro Postiglione, “Architectural Affordances – Typologies and Temporal Co-Authorship”, in: Caroline Voet, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Eireen Schreurs, eds. The As Found – Architecture Dialogues. On Collaborations, Affective Restoration and Typological Strategies of Reuse, Leuven: KU Leuven University Press 2026, review / forthcoming.
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, forthcoming. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2026.2710521.
2026
Andreas Lechner, Cameron McEwan, “Peripheral Bodies: Frankenstein Periphery as a Critical Framework”, in: Architecture and Culture (AHRA, Taylor & Francis), accepted / forthcoming.
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, ︎︎︎Open Acess.
2026
Andreas Lechner, Maike Gold: “Typologies of Transformation”, in: Forum Architekturwissenschaft 7, Berlin: Universitätsverlag TU Berlin 2026, forthcoming.
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, in press, DOI: 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, Open access.
2025
Andreas Lechner, “Continual Building – On Buildings and Discontinuous Peripheries”, in: 건축평단 / Architectural Critics – South Korea 25 / 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
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.
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.
Editor
[2026] The Journal of Architecture, Special Issue „Peripheries – Peripherocene“, guest editor with Cameron McEwan, forthcoming.
[2026] International Journal of Architectural Research: Archnet–IJAR, Special Issue „Hybrid Practices: Practice/Design/Theory-Based Research in Architecture“ guest editor with Cameron McEwan, forthcoming. Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
2026: GAM – Graz Architecture Magazine 22, Synergies.
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).
PhD
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.
PhD Candidate: Sabine Kastner
Supervisor: Andreas Lechner
Doctoral School TU Graz
Counterintuitive Typologies
TU Graz Research Group
Associate Professor
Dr. Andreas Lechner
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