{"id":19851,"date":"2025-09-23T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=19851"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:07:46","slug":"23-09-2025-publiclecture","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/event\/23-09-2025-publiclecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Online Lecture by Professor Andreas Lechner \u201cTypologies of Transformation\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0are pleased\u00a0to inform you that the Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Studies at Ilia State University is\u00a0currently\u00a0implementing a project entitled\u00a0\u201cUrban Transformations of Saburtalo.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The project investigates, on the one hand, the processes of urban transformation in Saburtalo from the late nineteenth century through the 1990s, and, on the other hand, the architectural characteristics and particularities of housing construction.<\/p>\n

A key focus of the research team is the examination of how residential building types have evolved in parallel with the spatial transformation of the neighborhood, how different typologies have been established, and how these have undergone change over time.<\/p>\n

Within the framework of the project, four international seminars are planned, bringing together scholars engaged with this field of research. The first seminar will take place on 30 October of this year and will be led by Professor Andreas Lechner of the Faculty of Architecture at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). The theme of the seminar will be\u00a0Typologies of Transformation.<\/em><\/p>\n

In contemporary architectural discourse, the imperative to\u00a0Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle\u2014encompassing adaptive reuse, continual transformation, and building upon the built\u2014fundamentally challenges inherited notions of architectural production and authorial invention. In this lecture,\u00a0Andreas Lechner\u00a0examines the evolving relationship between architectural type, typology, and strategies of transformation, drawing on his recent publication\u00a0Architectural Affordances \u2013 Typologies of Umbau\u00a0(2025). Here, the concept of\u00a0Umbau\u00a0(German for \u201ctransformation\u201d) reframes architectural reasoning and practice\u2014extending beyond maintenance, technical renovation, or adaptive reuse. It proposes a more nuanced dialogue with typology, historical continuity, and material articulation, that started with his 2021 \u201eThinking Design – Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology\u201c (Park Books: Zurich 2021).<\/p>\n

Structured around theoretical inquiry, typological analysis, and drawing-based research, the talk invites to discern the latent spatial potentials\u2014architectural affordances\u2014embedded in existing structures.These affordances, understood as both ecological and cultural prompts, offer new ways of engaging with the resilience, adaptability, and social intelligence of the built environment, ultimately repositioning \u201eUmbau” not as a niche activity but as architecture\u2019s disciplinary core\u2014at once critical praxis and artistic endeavour.<\/p>\n

Andreas Lechner<\/strong>\u00a0is an architect, educator, and writer whose practice is rooted in contextually sensitive, research-driven design. He holds a PhD and a Master of Architecture from\u00a0TU Graz, where he currently serves as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture. Before founding\u00a0Studio Andreas Lechner, he studied and worked with\u00a0Pritzker Architecture Prize\u2013winning architects, drawing on formative experiences in Los Angeles, Berlin, Vienna, and Tokyo. He is the author of the award-winning, based on his habilitation, and has held postdoctoral research positions at\u00a0Universit\u00e0 Iuav di Venezia\u00a0and\u00a0Royal Danish Academy\u00a0in Copenhagen. Lechner lectures and teaches internationally, serves as a visiting professor at\u00a0Politecnico di Milano, and leads the research group “Counterintuitive Typologies” supported by the\u00a0Austrian Research Promotion Agency. He is also co-editor of\u00a0GAM \u2013 Graz Architecture Magazine\u00a0and of a forthcoming special issue of\u00a0The Journal of Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0are pleased\u00a0to inform you that the Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Studies at Ilia State University is\u00a0currently\u00a0implementing a project entitled\u00a0\u201cUrban Transformations of Saburtalo.\u201d\u00a0The project investigates, on the one hand, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[51],"class_list":["post-19851","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-events","cat_events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/19851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19851"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.iliauni.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=19851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}