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 of 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 practice.
In 2005 I moved to Sydney to study media. I decided to stay in Australia and became a citizen in 2014.
In 2019 I completed my Masters of Architecture at the University of Newcastle and married my wife Sasha. We moved to Tasmania a year later and I qualified as a registered architect.
Here, I built a home for our family just with my own two hands, designed hundreds of other homes, and taught thousands of other people how to build even more 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.