Career
From the thirties the works of “Zagreb school of architecture" can stand alongside the best world architecture. They are especially interesting because of merging of two opposite directions in architecture of those days – functionalist and organic. He was born in a small village of Lučen Dol to a peasant family in 1874.
He eventually moved to Graz, where he spent his education.
At age of seventeen, he came to Zagreb and worked as an apprentice to Herman Bolle. In 1896 he enrolled at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna.
He graduated and returned to Zagreb in 1899. A year after his death, he was posthumously awarded a Grand Prix in Arts and Crafts on the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris.