When Artificial Intelligence explains its decisions, user trust grows. They gain a better understanding of the environment and shop more consciously. A new study from the University of Liechtenstein, published in the renowned "International Journal of Information Management," demonstrates this.

LSA Senior Lecturer Nina Beck was honoured together with an interdisciplinary team for the project «Die Gute Stube», which received the Special Award at the Austrian National Design Award 2026.

Students of the course «Upcycling and Circular Construction» discussed reversible connection solutions and their potential for circular construction together with Hilti AG.

The University of Liechtenstein participated in the 2nd Clay Building Symposium «Clay Connects – Tradition Meets Innovation» in Chur with several expert presentations, student projects and an excursion. The symposium brought together professionals from architecture, research and building practice and focused on current questions surrounding construction with clay.

What happens when architecture is neither clearly inside nor outside? In his lecture at the Liechtenstein School of Architecture, Christian Weyell of Weyell Zipse spoke about the award-winning project «Schulhaus Guggach» in Zurich and discussed how spaces can emerge that continuously evolve through climate, use and community.

The University of Liechtenstein warmly congratulates Piotr Piotrowski on the successful defence of his dissertation «BIM-assisted Digital Material Banks» on 27 April 2026.

In March 2026, a team from the Liechtenstein School of Architecture took part in the international «Design by Making» workshop Crafting Clay. The workshop took place from 14 to 22 March 2026 at the regenerative farm Erve Kiekebosch in Empe (NL) and was coordinated by the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.

The question of how to build with existing resources was at the centre of an evening with Barbara Buser, Clarissa Frommelt (Stiftung Lebenswertes Liechtenstein), Luis Hilti (Atelier Gapont) and Daniel Stockhammer (University of Liechtenstein).