︎︎︎Theses & Design Studios




Summer 2027

—Visiting Professor, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
· Studio 3rd year


· Design Studio, NN (Master TU Graz) 



Winter 2026/27 · Studio Aichfeld (Design Studio, Master TU Graz)


Summer 2026 · Studio: Work After Office (Bachelor, 3rd year)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design (Doctoral School)


Winter 2025/26 — Guest Professor, TU Berlin, Chair of Architectural Theory
Studio: Haus und Büro (E1, Bachelor, 2nd year)


Summer 2025 · Studio: Villa ADU Cottages (Bachelor, 3rd year)
Privatissimum: Building Typology and Design (Doctoral School)


Winter 2024/25 · Studio: Villa ADU – Accessory Dwelling Unit (Bachelor, 2nd year)


Summer 2024 — Guest Professor, Politecnico di Milano, AUID Doctoral Programme
Studio: Villa Urbaine (Bachelor, 3rd year)


Winter 2023/24 · Studio: Steinhaus, Steinhof, Steindorf — Günther Domenig‘s Steinhaus (Bachelor, 3rd year)
Summer 2023 — Guest Professor, Politecnico di Milano, AUID Doctoral Programme
Studio: Klaviatur der Vorstadt — Urban Villa (Bachelor, 3rd year)


Winter 2022/23 · Studio: Mixed-Use Multi-Form — Counterintuitive Typologies 3 (Master)
Summer 2022 · Studio: 15 Ecken, ein Haus (Bachelor, 3rd year)
Seminar: Building Typology and Design (elective, University of Innsbruck)


Winter 2021/22 · Studio: Education of an Architect — Counterintuitive Typologies 2 (Master)


Winter 2020/21 · Studio: Counterintuitive Typologies (Master)




Master’s theses (selected)


Virginia Capone: Building on the Built
Master’s thesis TU Graz / Politecnico di Milano 2023

Adaptive Reuse, Typology,
Design Research,
Mixed-Use

Double Degree thesis
co-tutored with Prof. Gennaro Postiglione




Dennis Baumgartner: Simple et radical
Master’s thesisTU Graz 2023

Adaptive Reuse, Typology,
Design Research,
Mixed-Use




Valentin Moser: Die Summe einzelner Teile
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2023

Adaptive Reuse, Typology,
Design Research,
Mixed-Use, (Sub-)Urbanism




Paula Möller: (Un)Ordnung – Periphere Räume in Transformation
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2023

Adaptive Reuse, Typology,
Housing, Mixed-Use, (Sub-)Urbanism




Bernhard Ogrisek: Das Infra-Gewöhnliche – Alltagsfragmente des Grazer Umlands
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2022



Design Research,
Typology,
(Sub-)Urbanism



Michael Karnutsch: Wohn- und Freizeitpark Grenzgasse
Masterthesis TU Graz 2022

︎GAD Award 2022


Design Research,
Typology, Housing,
(Sub-)Urbanism




Zerina Dzubur: Der Spanische Platz in Mostar
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2022



Design Research, Urban Design, Urbanism




Thomas Rogl: Kongresszentrum Bad Gastein
Masterthesis TU Graz 2022  


Brutalist Heritage, Renovation, Adaptive Reuse, Tourism




Matthias Johannes Holzner: Club Caracalla
Masterthesis TU Graz 2021

Hertitage Protection, Design Research, Speculation, Adaptive Reuse




Maike Gold: Grammatik einer Industrielandschaft
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

︎ GAD Awards 2021

Design Research, Typology, (Sub-)Urbanism




Ajna Babahmetović: Houses at Home. Architecture of Displacement
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020


Design Research, Typology, (Sub-)Urbanism




Markus Pöll: Stadtquartier Jakominiplatz
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

Urbanism, Typlogy, Mixed-Use




Jakob Zöbl: Palimpsest
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

︎1st Prize GAD Awards 2020

 

Design Research, Typology, Infrastructure,
Heritage Protection




Anna Müller: Ein Hotel im Wandel
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

Design Research, Transformation, Adaptive Reuse, Tourism




Anna-Lena Proksch: hortus patens
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

Design Research, Housing, Mixed-Use, Religion




Georg Scherrer: Forum Schiffslände
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2020

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use




Johann Quechenberger: Bauen in der Mitte - Dorfzentrum von Bad Vigaun
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2019

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use




Katie Filek: Stadtbibliothek - A reading of the city and a library in the park for the historic city of Graz, Austria
Master’s Thesis TU Graz / Politecnico di Milano
2019

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use


Double Degree thesis co-tutored w/ Prof. Domenico Chizzoniti




Antun Jankovic: Perpetual Peace. An architectural sketch
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2018

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use




Stefan Perperschlager: Guilt and innocence – Learning from a Biedermeier house in Braunau
Masterthesis TU Graz 2018

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use




Ena Kukic: Kenopsia - Sarajevo War Tunnel Museum
Masterthesis TU Graz 2017

︎1st Prize GAD Awards 18

︎Finalist Archiprix Hunter Douglas Award 2019

Design Research, Urban Design, Typology, Culture, Mixed-Use




Rebekka Hirschberg: YZ HKG. A Tale of Two Cities,
Masterthesis TU Graz 2017

︎ Vimeo


Design Research, Narrative Architecture




Lisa Marie Hafner: Hong Kong Twin Factory. A Memory Lesson in Architecture
Masterthesis TU Graz 2017



Design Research, Mixed-Use, Urban Factory




Matthias Wild: Factory for Collective Dwelling
Masterthesis TU Graz 2017



Adaptive Reuse, Industrial, Housing




Alexander Gebetsroither: I-710/I-105 #more than infrastructure
Master’s thesis TU Graz 2016

︎World‘s best graduation thesis – Archiprix Hunter Douglas Award 2019

︎GAD Awards 2016


Design Research, Typology, Mixed-Use, Urbanism
Culture, Commercial, Civic, Infrastructure




Thomas Hörmann: Replikation – Model for a new municipal centrality in the suburban landscape
Diplomarbeit TU Graz 2016

︎GAD Awards 2016



Design Research, Typology, Commercial & Civic




Helena Beljan & Nikola Jankovic: Fiat Claustrum. A monastery for the Anachorets in Split, Diplomarbeit TU Graz 2016


Design Research, Typology, Religion




Vedran Zonic: Sveucilisna Bolnica Zagreb – reconstruction, extension and conversion of a hospital ruin from 1980
Diplomarbeit TU Graz 2016


Adaptive Reuse, Transformation, Health Care, Education




Morana Mazuran: Large form Novi Zagreb. A model for a new collectivity
Diplomarbeit TU Graz 2016


Design Research, Typology, Housing, Urbanism




Christoph W. Pirker: Analogue landscape. Approaches to the lost space of the indefinite,
Diplomarbeit TU Graz 2015

︎1st Prize GAD Awards 2016

Design Research





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