A state-certified architect, engineer, and urban planner; Doctor of Technical Sciences; and set designer. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University (1906–1911) under Professors Josef Schulz and Josef Fanta. From 1909 to 1917, he worked in Jan Kotěra’s studio, while also undertaking study trips throughout Europe. From 1917 to 1948, he ran his own studio; he then worked at the Office of the Chief Architect of Prague. Beginning in 1928, he was a member of the State Regulatory Commission of the Capital City of Prague, and after 1945, of the Provincial National Committee. He was active in the Society of Architects, the Architects’ Club, the Union of Socialist Architects, CIAM, the Chamber of Engineers, and the Mánes Union of Fine Arts, participating in several of its exhibitions. He was a member of the Technical Commission of the Czechoslovak Tourist Union (KČST), which dispatched him as an expert to assess the technical condition of older buildings or newly constructed tourist lodges (he designed the mountain lodge below Ďumbier in the Low Tatras).

He created set designs primarily for the Art Theater on Hybernská Street and for the Vinohrady Theater. In 1921, he exhibited with the Society of Architects in Prague, and in 1940, he participated in the exhibition “For a New Architecture.”

His architectural designs were initially influenced by Cubism; later, he turned to a distinctive synthesis of Neoclassical and Functionalist styles, which ultimately prevailed in his work. A number of his completed projects have been preserved, primarily in Prague and Pardubice. During World War II, he was active in the resistance, and after 1945 he began working for the Provincial National Committee. Although he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and co-founded the East Bohemian firm Stavoprojekt, the new regime persecuted him in the 1950s. Despite his rehabilitation, he never returned to active design work.