[1] Vladimír Fischer attended state schools in Brno until 1887, then matriculated to the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he studied engineering construction under prominent Galician-born architect Friedrich Ohmann until 1893.

He established his own independent architectural practice in Brno soon after the turn of the century, and in 1902 was appointed to the technical department of the Moravian Governorate, initially as a construction adjunct.

Probably the most prominent of these was the new headquarters of the Cyrilometodějská zálazna (Cyril and Methodius Credit Union), now the Hotel Grandezza, in Brno, the first Czech financial institution to be based in the city, completed in 1914–15.

Upon the disintegration of Austria-Hungary in November 1918, he became chief building consultant and head of the surface structures department at the provincial political administration in Brno.

The Czech University of Technology (ČVŠT) was established in Brno in 1919, with a department of architecture and civil engineering with cz:Karel Kapka as its first dean.

This shift began when Fischer won the competition for the new city hall in Ostrava in 1924 but was asked to collaborate with fellow entrants Kolář & Rubý on the final design.