Hubert Feiglstorfer

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Hubert Feiglstorfer (* 1967 in Steyr ) is an Austrian architect , university professor and research associate at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Feiglstorfer laid in 1986 in Amstetten the Matura from, studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna and in 1993 was an architecture student at McGill University in Montreal ( Canada ). After completing his master's thesis in architecture at the Vienna University of Technology in 1995 , he began his work as an architect, specializing in the planning and execution of construction work and conducting field research in several European and Asian countries.

Since 2001 as a research assistant at the University of Graz , Institute for Architectural Technology (Baukunst), in 2002 he worked on the building survey and documentation of the Tabo monastery in the Himalayas . He started his first doctoral thesis at the Vienna University of Technology in 2003.

Feiglstorfer has been a member of the Institute for Comparative Architectural Research (IVA / ICRA) at the Vienna University of Technology since 2005. Between 2005 and 2006 he was on an expedition in South and Central Asian countries with a focus on India for a period of 18 months for the purpose of further field research.

At the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) he started his second doctoral thesis in 2009, which he completed in June 2017.

Since 2010 Hubert Feiglstorfer has been a research associate on several projects at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . For the FWF project “Power and Religion in Premodern Western Tibet” he was on a two-month expedition to Western Tibet and Western China ( Xinxiang ).

In 2011 he did his doctorate in architectural history and building research at the Vienna University of Technology, founded “AHDF-Architectural Heritage, Development and Future” and undertook a two-month expedition to Ladakh and Kashmir .

Feiglstorfer has been teaching at the Institute for Building History and Building Research at the Vienna University of Technology since 2012 and is involved in scientific work in the field of architectural history. In 2012 he became a member of ICOMOS Austria and the International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH / ICOMOS) . Since 2013 he has been a research assistant in the FWF project "The Barrows of Central Tibet" at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

An expedition took him to Tibet again for a month in 2014 and he gave lectures on the subject of “Introduction to Architecture and Building History” at Masaryk University in Brno . As head of a six-month project at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Geology at BOKU Vienna, he dealt with the investigation of clay minerals in relation to clay processing and building techniques.

Hubert Feiglstorfer has been teaching at the Institute for Applied Geology at BOKU Vienna since 2015 and at the Institute for Building Construction at TU Vienna since 2017: "Earth Building Practicum".

In 2017 he received his doctorate at the Institute for Applied Geology at BOKU Vienna. Since 2017 Hubert Feiglstorfer has been teaching vernacular (traditional) architecture at the Institute for Architectural History and Building Research at the TU Vienna. He is a research associate in the FWF-funded project "The Barrows of Central Tibet Part 2" at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as a research associate in "Materiality and material culture in Tibet", a project of the innovation fund "Research, Science and Society ”at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he co-founded the working group “ARGE Lehmbau BOKU” at the Institute for Applied Geology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, with a focus on research and teaching on historical earth building in Austria. He is involved in the documentation of historical earth building techniques as part of the Citizen Science project "Lehmbau im Weinviertel" and since 2018, a research result of this project has been a PPGIS computer application for GIS-based earth building data acquisition.

In 2018 he completed his habilitation in "Vernacular Architecture" at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2019 he became a member of the International Committee for Vernacular Architecture (CIAV / ICOMOS).

Since 2020 he has headed the research project "Crafts and craft traditions in Tibetan architecture" at the Institute for Social Anthropology, funded by the innovation fund "Research, Science and Society" of the Austrian Academy of Science.

Publications (selection)

  • 2008. The development of Buddhist architecture in Mongolia, in: Traditional Mongolian Culture , Part I, 2008, Budapest, ed. Ágnes Birtalan, published by Szerkesztette, közzéteszi: Birtalan Ágnes, CD publication.
  • 2009. On the origin of early Tibetan Buddhist architecture, in: Along the Great Wall. Architecture and Identity in China and Mongolia , proceedings of the symposium “Along the Great Wall. Architecture and Identity in China and Mongolia ”, eds. Erich Lehner and Alexandra Harrer, May 2009, University of Technology, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag, 119-136.
  • 2011. Buddhist sacred architecture in the western Himalayas. 10th to 14th centuries. Building structures, building typologies and proportional systems , doctoral thesis, University of Technology, Vienna,
  • 2012. Architecture and layout of Khorchag monastery, in: འཁོར་ ཆགས ། / Khorchag /廓 迦 寺 文史 大观. Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of its History and Culture , series: Studies and Materials on Historical Western Tibet , Volume I, eds. Tsering Gyalpo and Christian Jahoda, Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang [Old Tibetan Books Publishing House], 82–87.
  • 2013. Comparative study on early Javanese Buddhist architecture in the late 8th / early 9th century AD: Candi Sewu in Central Java - Somapura vihara at Pāhārpur in East India - Samye monastery in Central Tibet, in: Insular Diversity: Architecture - Culture - Identity in Indonesia , proceedings of the symposium “Insular Diversity: Architecture - Culture - Identity in Indonesia”, eds. Erich Lehner, Irene Doubrawa and Ikaputra, May 2011, University of Technology, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag, 35–56.
  • 2014. Revealing traditions in earthen architecture: Analysis of earthen building material and traditional constructions in the Western Himalayas, in: Art and Architecture in Ladakh. Cross-Cultural Transmissions in the Himalayas and Karakorum , eds. Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 364-388.
  • 2015. The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet. Layout – Construction – Material , (ISA / ÖAW) Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, online: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ tibetantumulustradition / de / startseite.
  • 2015. (Editor). Architecture and Conservation, PIATS 2013: Proceedings of the 13th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS) , Ulaanbaatar 2013, Panel 2 “Architecture and Conservation”, July 26, 2013, ed. Hubert Feiglstorfer, printed version: JCCS-a . Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture, 2015 (8), online: http://www.jccs-a.org/issues.
  • 2016. Making of an arga roof , architectural and social anthropologic documentary film on a traditional Tibetan roof, 24 minutes, online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwYJmvQO-8U.
  • 2016. (Editor). Earth Construction and Tradition. Volume 1 , Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag.
  • 2017. A reconstruction of the monastery of Khorchag - The Lhakhang Chenmo, in: Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia. Proceedings of Transfer, Translation and Transformation in Art, Archeology, Religion and Polity , Colloque International de la Seechac, Vienna, 25-27 November 2013, eds. Eva Allinger, Frantz Grenet, Christian Jahoda, Maria-Katharina Lang and Anne Vergati, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 275–306.
  • 2017. Himalayan earth roof constructions, in: Earth Construction and Tradition, Volume 2 , ed. Hubert Feiglstorfer, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag.
  • 2018. (Editor). Earth Construction and Tradition. Volume 2 , Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag.
  • 2018. History of earth building in Eastern Austria, co-author with Roland Meingast, in: Earth Construction and Tradition, Volume 2 , ed. Hubert Feiglstorfer, Vienna: IVA-ICRA Verlag, 21–83.
  • 2018. Notes on the architecture of burial mounds in Central Tibet, in: Tibetan Genealogies. Papers in Memory of Tsering Gyalpo. Historical and Philological Studies of China's Western Regions , eds. Guntram Hazod and Shen Weirong, Renmin University Beijing, 107-151.
  • 2019. Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas: the Mineralogical Impact on the Use of Clay as Building Material , Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
  • 2019. Historical building stock and climate protection, co-author with Roland Meingast, in: Preservation of monuments in Lower Austria 61/2019, Preservation of monuments and sustainability , 16–20.
  • 2019. Lehm und Lehmbau in Weinviertler Kellergassen, co-author with Roland Meingast and Franz Ottner, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 3-4, 2019, Bundesdenkmalamt (ed.), Horn, Vienna: Verlag Berger, 153-165.
  • 2020. Earth building stock in Kellergassen, in: Kulturlandschaft der Kellergassen. Research protection preservation , ed. Gerold Eßer, Horn, Vienna: Verlag Berger, 107-113.
  • 2020. Straw in Clay Bricks and Plasters - Can We Use Its Molecular Decay for Dating Purposes ?, co-author with Johannes Tintner, Kimberly Roth, Franz Ottner, Zuzana Syrová-Anýžová, Ivana Žabičková, Karin Wriessnig and Roland Meingast, in: Molecules 2020, 25 (6), 1-9, online: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25061419.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Feiglstorfer on the website of the Institute for Comparative Architectural Research , accessed on November 1, 2018
  2. ↑ FWF Project Finder - selection mask. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Homepage of the AHDF , accessed on November 3, 2018
  4. ↑ ICOMOS ISCEAH. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ FWF Project Finder - selection mask. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Burial Mounds of Central Tibet: home. Accessed December 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Innovation Fund for Research, Science and Society. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ clay building BOKU - Earthen architectural heritage in Austria. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).
  9. ↑ Lehmbau im Weinviertel - Citizen Science Project on Lehmbau im Weinviertel. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Feiglstorfer, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Steyr