I was born in 1979 in the city of Brno, Czechia (then part of Czechoslovakia).
My grandparents and parents bore the brunt of the second world war, nazi occupation and the subsequent communist regime. I myself remember, if vaguely, some of the life under the totalitarian government, before the peaceful Velvet Revolution arrived in 1989.
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 the Covid lockdowns. I have lived here since, with my wife and children. In 2020 I registered as an architect in Tasmania.
I have built our own family home with my own two hands, designed hundreds of other homes, and taught thousands of other people how to build their own homes.
While I work across Australia and internationally, I believe Tasmania to be the best place to live and raise a family. I want it to stay that way.