He later studied architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

[1] After returning to Prague, he worked on several building projects with his brother-in-law and fellow architect Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann.

They worked together on the design of the Franz Josef train station in Prague (now called Praha hlavní nádraží), which was demolished in 1904 to make way for the current Art Nouveau building.

He was also chairman of the art department of the Association for the completion of St. Vitus' Cathedral, he was a monument conservator of the Central Commission in Vienna and a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts.

[1] He was also active as an archaeologist, and in 1882 Pope Leo XIII awarded him the distinguished knightly order of St. Gregory for his expertise in Christian archeology.