- 1967 Born in Steyr, Upper Austria.
- 1986 Higher School Certificate at the Secondary school in Amstetten.
- 1993 Student in architecture at the Mc Gill University in Montreal.
- 1995 Master thesis in architecture at the Vienna University of Technology.
- since 1995 Working as an architect, specialized on survey, planning and the execution of construction work.
- since 1996 Field research in Albania, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Hungaria, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Lao, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam.
- 2001 Research Assistant at the University of Graz. Institute of Architecture Technology (Baukunst).
- 2001 1st expedition and field research in several Asian countries with a focus on India, 2001−2003, lasting for 18 months.
- 2002 Staff member at the building survey and documentation of the monastery of Tabo, FWF- Forschungsschwerpunkt The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 10th to the 14th century, sub-project Buddhist Architecture of the Western Himalaya.
- 2003 Beginning of a 1st doctoral thesis at the Vienna University of Technology.
- 2005 2nd expedition and field research in South- and Central Asian countries with a focus on India, 2005−2006, lasting for 18 months.
- since 2005 Member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Architecture (IVA/ICRA), based at the Vienna University of Technology.
- 2009 Beginning of a 2nd doctoral thesis at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.
- since 2010 Researcher in the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P21806-G19 Society, Power and Religion in Pre- modern Western Tibet: Interaction, Conflict and Integration, based at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- 2010 Expedition to West Tibet and Western China/Xinxiang, lasting for 2 months, FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P21806-G19.
- 2011 Doctoral thesis in Architectural History and Building Research at the Vienna University of Technology.
- 2011 Foundation of AHDF – Architectural Heritage and Development Fund.
- 2011 Expedition to Ladakh, lasting for 1 month, FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P21806-G19.
- since 2012 Teaching at the Institute for Architectural History and Building Research at the Vienna University of Technology: Zeit-Räume: Scientific working in the field of Architectural History
- since 2013 Researcher in the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P 25066 The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet, based at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- 2014 Expedition to Tibet, lasting for 1 month, FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P 25066.
- 2014 Teaching at the Masarykova University in Brno: Introduction to Architecture and Building History.
- 2014 Project leader of a 6 months lasting FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency)-project on Clay mineral analysis, based at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Geology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.
- since 2015 Teaching at the Institute of Applied Geology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna: Earth building practicum.
Forschungsschwerpunkt im IVA
Architektur Südasien und Himalaya, Lehmbau
Publikationen
- “Earth Construction and Tradition, Volume I”, IVA, Wien, 2016, H. Feiglstorfer (Hrg.)
- “Revealing Traditions in Earthen Architecture: Analysis of Earthen Building Material and Traditional Constructions in the Western Himalayas”. Art and Architecture in Ladakh. Cross-Cultural Transmissions in the Himalayas ad Karakorum, eds. E. Lo Bue, J. Bray, Leiden, Boston, 2014
- “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”. Insular Diversity: Architecture – Culture – Identity in Indonesia, eds. E. Lehner, I.Doubrawa, Ikaputra, IVA, Wien, 2013
- “Research on earthen roof constructions of Buddhist temples in the Western Himalaya”, Theme 6: Research in Materials and Technology for Conservation, proceedings of the XIth International Conference on the study and conservation of Earthen and Achitecture Heritage, ed. Daniel T. Dávila, CD-Publication, 2012
- “Architecture and layout of Khorchag monastery“. 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. T.Gyalpo, C. Jahoda, Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang [Old Tibetan Books Publishing House], 2012
- “Map: Historical Western Tibet“. 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. T. Gyalpo, C. Jahoda, Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang [Old Tibetan Books Publishing House], 2012
- Sacred Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas: layouts, typologies and proportional systems, Volume I, University of Technology of Vienna, doctoral thesis, 2011
- Sacred Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas: layouts, typologies and proportional systems, Volume II, University of Technology of Vienna, doctoral thesis, 2011
- “On the Origin of Early Tibetan Buddhist Architecture”. Along the Great Wall. Architecture and Identity in China and Mongolia, eds. E. Lehner, A. Harrer, IVA, Wien, 2009
- „Die Entwicklung der Buddhistischen Architektur in der Mongolei“. Traditional Mongolian Culture, Part I, 2008, Budapest, ed. Á. Birtalan, published by Szerkesztette
- „Einhand-Architekturdokumentation: Traditionelle Messmethoden und Photogrammetrie“; Gesellschaft und Gebaute Umwelt: Ausgewählte Beiträge aus der Sozialwissenschaft, Ethnographie und Architektur, eds. F. Zamolyi, T. Szilágyi, IVA, Wien, 2008
Mail hubert.feiglstorfer@tuwien.ac.at