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A consortium involving TU Graz has developed technical methods for the sustainable extension of existing Wilhelminian (Gründerzeit) buildings using modular timber constructions.

How should buildings be arranged so that my home can be ventilated naturally? Christoph Irrenfried and the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer investigate this question.

For us, utilising solar energy often means generating electricity using photovoltaics. Sophisticated architectural modifications, however, make much more possible.

In the 20th issue of GAM - Graz Architecture Magazine, we encounter Italian Autogrill service stations, the backyards of Neapolitan palazzi and K67 kiosks from the former Yugoslavia.

By Philipp Jarke In the PeriSponge project, a team led by Eva Schwab from the Institute of Urbanism is developing an evidence-based toolbox that municipalities can use to minimise surface sealing and thus the risk of flooding.

By Philipp Jarke und Falko Schoklitsch How can we deal with droughts and floods? To what extent are we ourselves to blame? An interview with Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch from the Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering at TU Graz.

By Ute Wiedner The new issue of the Graz Architecture Magazine (GAM), recently presented at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), deals with the manifestations of architecture as a professional practice.

By Ute Wiedner The architectural holdings of the Archives of TU Graz - including the estates of Herbert Eichholzer, Anna Lülja Praun or Karla Kowalski - form the core of the Architekturarchiv Steiermark (ASt), which will be opened in Graz on 30th November.

Brian Cody is an engineer with over 30 years of experience in the analysis and design of energy efficient cities, buildings and systems.

Aglaeé Degros is a professor and researcher at TU Graz. More precisely: at the Institute of Urbanism.

By Mag. Beate Mosing The future of animals lies in the city, because private gardens are often the opposite of "ecological".

The current issue of the Graz Architecture Magazine (GAM) takes a fresh look at the architectural complexity of wood and explores the material's potential for a more climate-friendly building industry.

By Birgit Baustädter Urban designer Aglaée Degros explores rural and urban in-between spaces and what happens in them.

By Susanne Eigner Architecture students at Graz University of Technology have designed a travelling exhibition that reconstructs traces of the resistance to the Nazi regime in Styria on the basis of four case studies.

By Ute Wiedner Recently enrolled in their architecture studies and already internationally successful: Students won with their pavilion for a micro community at the Tongji Construction Festival at the TU Graz partner university Tongji.

By Ute Wiedner The new issue of GAM on Territorial Justice thematises the area of tension between urban and rural regions in terms of needs-oriented spatial planning.

Whether in the sphere of architecture critique or on the market of speculative real estate investment, architecture is increasingly becoming the subject of global circulation.

The TU Wien is planning a photogrammetric survey of historically important models of traditional Japanese buildings.

Wood is a trendy material - and not only in the music scene (thanks to the 257ers) but also in the construction sector.

A breath of fresh air: The Institute of Architecture Technology of TU Graz is working on architectural solutions for better room climate in subtropical and tropical regions.

Two architecture students from TU Graz developed a 23-m2-large mobile space made of cardboard. They reveal in the interview the doubts they faced about developing the prototype for refugee accommodation.