Education
Arnold Karplus attended school in Opava, studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and Czechoslovakian Technical University in Prague in 1903 and received his doctorate of engineering.
Arnold Karplus attended school in Opava, studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and Czechoslovakian Technical University in Prague in 1903 and received his doctorate of engineering.
Karplus lived in Vienna from 1904, initially as an employee in the studio of architect Alexander Wielemans. He participated in several competitions and was active primarily in residential construction. In 1911 Karplus was sworn in as Imperial Royal court expert and appraiser and became construction director of a building construction company in Vienna, a position he held until the liquidation of the company in 1927.
In the First World War Karplus was first commissioned as a lieutenant and then as a captain, involved in the establishment of military utility buildings.
In 1927, Arnold Karplus established his independent architectural studio. One of his better known works was the Ditteshof communal apartment complex built in 1928/29 in Vienna"s 19th district.
lieutenant consisted of 279 apartments around a landscaped courtyard and included shops, a nursery, a bathhouse and a community hall.