I was born in 1979 in the city of Brno, Czechia, then part of Czechoslovakia.
My grandparents bore the brunt of the second world war and German occupation. After the communist takeover, my grandfather became political prisoner of the regime. With great difficulty was his son, my father, eventually permitted to study and become an architect.
I remember, if vaguely, some of the life under the communist government. Even a child’s silly song, overheard by the wrong person and reported, could mean serious trouble for the parents.
The peaceful Velvet Revolution came in 1989 and Russian occupation ended in 1991.
I completed grammar school in 1998 and moved to Prague to work for an international creative agency as well as run my own design studio.
In 2005 I moved to Sydney to study media. I lived in New South Wales and eventually became an Australian citizen in 2014.
In 2019 I completed my Masters in architecture at the University of Newcastle and moved to Tasmania just before Covid lockdowns, where I have lived since with my wife and children.
In 2020 I became a registered architect in Tasmania. I have built our family home with my own two hands, designed many more homes and taught thousands of others to build even more homes.
While I work across Australia and internationally, I believe Tasmania to be the best place to live and raise family. I want it to stay that way.
I am a Tasmanian with a Czech accent, acute appreciation for personal freedoms and a few ideas to share around the fire.