Born 1947 in Moravia, Czech Republic. After graduating from the University of Technology in Prague in 1972, he has taught at several universities and currently is a professor of the Faculty of Architecture at the Universities of Technology in Prague and in Brno, Czech. Visiting scholar of the Canadian Centre of Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Canada (2000). Member of the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin (1994). Awarded HonFAIA (1992) and HonFRIBA (1997).
Well known for some authors including “Czech Functionalism 1918/1938” (AA London,1987), “Brno Functionalists” (Helsinki, 1983) and “Bata Architecture” (Zlin,1991). And he also published monographs of many Czech architects and of an Austrian architect, Adolf Loos.