Institute of Architecture and Landscape ia&l TU Graz
Exhibitions & Teaching

Annual Summer Exhibitions

Each summer, the Faculty of Architecture at TU Graz hosts an annual exhibition showcasing student and institute work from the past academic year. As a student assistant, I played an active role in the entire process—from conceptual design to curation, layout, and hands-on implementation.

My responsibilities included helping creating project timelines, coordinating the selection and presentation of student work, and ensuring smooth execution of the exhibition. I particularly enjoyed witnessing the transition from theoretical planning to tangible spatial experiences, where individual contributions came together to form a cohesive whole.

A highlight of my experience was the All of Us exhibition (SoSe23), where seven individually plotted stripes shaped a unique spatial atmosphere, encapsulating the collective achievements of the year. Each student’s work was either displayed on these plots or curated into individual booklets, ensuring a comprehensive yet personal representation of their progress.

Working on exhibitions provided me with valuable insights into small-scale design and architectural interventions, reinforcing how thoughtful spatial compositions can create powerful atmospheres with minimal resources. This experience deepened my understanding of the interplay between design, curation, and experiential space-making.

Teaching Experience @ia&l
– Winter Semester 2024/25

As a lecturer I gained more experince teaching, where I led two courses, each with a distinct focus on integrative and ecological design approaches.

Bachelor Design 3 – In the RiverIn this 5th-semester design studio, students explored architecture within dynamic natural environments, developing a river observatory along the unregulated Tagliamento River in Northern Italy.
The course emphasized graphical skills and conceptual design, guiding students in creating landscape-responsive design strategies and architectures that integrate movement, time, and transformation as core design principles. A key aspect was learning how to design within constantly changing conditions, balancing human intervention with natural processes. The studio included a field excursion where students mapped, sketched, and analyzed the river’s materiality to inform their final concepts.

Workshop – Growing:TogetherThis one-week workshop for 3rd-semester bachelor students introduced Animal-Aided Design (AAD), an architectural approach that integrates urban wildlife into the built environment. Working in teams of two, 40 students developed modular interventions tailored to specific species at designated sites around Graz. The course focused on understanding animal habitats, conceptualizing ecological design strategies, and developing strong graphic representations.

Following expert-led sessions on urban biodiversity, students translated their findings into a design catalog, forming the basis for speculative interventions. The workshop encouraged students to rethink architecture as a shared space for humans and animals, fostering a coexistence-driven design approach that is both aesthetically and ecologically meaningful.

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Institute of Architecture and Landscape ia&l TU Graz Exhibitions & Teaching