* 1892 in Vienna
† 1972 in Vienna
- studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, including under Heinrich Tessenow
- 1919 with Tessenow to Dresden; collaboration on the settlement Pößneck and the garden city Hellerau
- from 1923 Chief Architect of the Austrian Association for Housing in Vienna
- from 1925 freelance architect, collaboration with Franz Schacherl, municipal housing estates of “Red Vienna”; furniture designs
- from 1927 Städelschule, Frankfurt/M., involved in Ernst May’s residential building projects
- 1933/1934 Opelbad on the Neroberg, Wiesbaden
- from 1936 Josef Hoffmann’s successor at the Kunstgewerbeschule; residential buildings and social housing in Vienna
- from 1950 professorship at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
- 1951 architectural prize of the City of Vienna
- 1955–1957 Pension Insurance Institution, Vienna
- 1967 Grand Austrian State Prize