Lajta finished his degree at the Budapest Technical University and worked briefly under Alajos Hauszmann before spending one and a half years in Italy, mainly Rome.
He returned home in 1899 to take part in a competition to design a synagogue which he won first prize in.
They worked together on a number of projects, namely the Kozma Street Cemetery's Schmidl crypt.
In 1909 he designed, in an Art Deco style the Parisiana, Paulay Ede utca, Budapest, now New Theatre (Új színház).
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