Ferdinand Aichhorn Author

Ferdinand Aichhorn is a chartered engineer, architect, b 1934 in Kleinarl/Salzburg. After high school in Salzburg, he studied in Vienna at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, as well as Architecture at the University of Technology. Having graduated, he worked as an architect in Israel and Switzerland, before teaching at the University of Stuttgart. From 1978 to 2004 he was a freelance urban planner in Salzburg. During this period he travelled in Asia for several weeks almost every year, and in 2005 he opened his "textil-kunst-galerie" at Steingasse 35 in Salzburg. He has continued to spend long periods in Asia, particularly in countries where traditional textile arts are still cultivated.