ALEXANDER AIGNERDESIGNER, ARTIST & VISIONER

ABOUT ME

I'm a designer, artist and visionary, trained as an architect, and I've always followed my own path. At its core, my work is a search for meaning. For the past ten years, or more precisely since the day I decided to pursue the dream of creating space, I've been asking myself how I can make a real difference. I believe in the power of what we do: that our actions can have impact, improve life for others and for ourselves, and quietly change the world around us. I haven't fully figured out how yet. But I've learned that the search itself is part of the work. That dream also met resistance. Architecture as a profession, as it exists today, often left little room for what I craved to build, to change and to improve. I never quite felt I could create what I truly envisioned within it. So I took a different step: I started creating "things." Whatever comes to my mind, whether objects, spaces in miniature, or visual experiments, I now give form to it. Working at a smaller scale lets me realize ideas directly and without compromise, and it has become my way of testing what space, material and atmosphere can do to a person. I'm someone with big dreams, ideas and ideologies. My architectural training still shapes how I think, in terms of proportion, structure, light and the relationship between people and their surroundings, but I now apply it freely, across disciplines.