born May 10, 1888, Kladno, Bohemia
died Nov. 21, 1976, Langhorne, Pa., U.S.
Czech-born U.S. architect.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 1910. He assisted Maekawa Kunio . Among his works were the Reader's Digest Building, Tokyo (1951; since destroyed), and the Nagoya International School (opened 1967), a circular structure serving a flexible, progressive educational program.