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Wie weiter?

15.05.2025

In May 2025, students from the Faculty of Architecture presented their works at the City of Graz’s “BürgerInnendialog” (Citizens’ Dialogue), with a focus on the development of the District of Leonhardstraße–Reiterweg. Created during a master’s studio at the Institute of Design in Existing Structures…
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banale potenziale

11.04.2025

In the fall of 2024, the banale potenziale was devoted—nonstop for 48 hours—to issues related to public space, especially streets. Based on 38 submitted contributions, alternative uses of the streetscapes around Graz’s Annenviertel were once again researched collaboratively.
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Graz Architecture Lectures 2025 – “Positionen”

09.04.2025

How can architecture respond to climate change through building? And how must the discipline evolve in order to do so? In 2025, the Graz Architecture Lectures adopted a revised format: curated jointly by Lukas Imhof (Institute of Architecture Technology) and Moritz Müller (GAM.Lab), the lecture…
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“The Art of Urban Design: Post-Industrial Regeneration in the Work of Marcel Smets” © stdb, TU Graz

Exhibitions by the Institute of Urbanism

02.04.2025

Two exhibitions by the Institute of Urbanism opened up a transdisciplinary space for exchange and discussion in the foyer of the Campus Alte Technik building in 2025. In the spring, the show “The Art of Urban Design: Post-Industrial Regeneration in the Work of Marcel Smets” presented the urban…
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Ramona Kraxner, Martina Majcen, Matthew Crabbe, Sorana Rădulescu © akk, TU Graz

AulaChats #2: The Profession Formerly Known as Architecture

01.03.2025

Where inaugural lectures and graduation ceremonies are otherwise held, the second edition of AulaChats examined the current state of architectural practice. Rather than presenting a portfolio of works or foregrounding architects themselves, the event—organized in March by the Institute of…
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PHD-Day Winter Semester 2025

24.02.2025

Two methodological guidelines were central to ten candidates of the Doctoral School of Architecture during their PhD seminar in the winter semester of 2024–25: “impact” and “implementation.” While impact referred to the relevance of the research question and its position within the current context,…
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Light Squared: As Soon as I Open My Eyes, I See a Film

20.01.2025

The course “Light Squared: As Soon as I Open My Eyes, I See a Film” took place as a classroom collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Institute of Experimental Physics. Architecture and physics students explored light-related concepts found in physics, photography, and film.…
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Landscapes of Exhaustion and Hope

18.11.2024

From climate collapse to endless wars, life under capitalism devastates the planet. “Landscapes of Exhaustion and Hope,” a public lecture and panel discussion with Amel Bešlagić, Mitesh Dixit, Nina Krajnik, Hannah Proctor, Philipp Sattler, and Rojda Tuğrul, invited the participants to use the notion…
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GAD Awards 24

17.10.2024

Sebastian Stubenrauch, Xhylferije Kryeziu, Stefanie Obermayer, Carola Elisabeth Hilgert, and Felix Dokonal are the winners of this year’s GAD Awards. The awarded projects design new facade contours in unused spaces (Sebastian Stubenrauch), reveal perspectives from rural areas (Xhylferije Kryeziu),…
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Architectural Models I: Hidden Potentials

01.10.2024

In the fall of 2024, the Institute of Construction and Design Principles (KOEN) at Graz University of Technology, in collaboration with the University of Maribor, hosted a synergistic elective course called “Architectural Models I: Hidden Potentials,” focusing on adaptive reuse and urban hybrids. 28…
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