︎︎︎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
Counterintuitive Typologies
TU Graz Research Group
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Dr. Andreas Lechner
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Dr. Andreas Lechner
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