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construction adjunct. He was promoted to engineer in 1906, and in 1913 to chief engineer. Fischer soon proved himself a capable and popular designer, garnering commissions for a vast array of different structural types throughout
Moravia, beginning with the Fryšták Town Hall (1900–01), followed up with the Tišnov Town Hall (1905–06), and including primary schools, private villas and tenement houses, gymnasiums, churches, vicarages and archbishops' residences, and financial institutions. 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. These works remained strongly historicist and eclectic, with Fischer often choosing from a wide range of well-worn architectural elements, including steeply-hipped roofs, turrets and onion-spired domes reminiscent of central European Baroque architecture.
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had originally intended, and so the finished product used a steel skeleton clad in reinforced concrete, with a copper-and-glass clad clock tower rising from the central pavilion. Fischer's mature modernist designs can be seen in the Trauma
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In 1899 Fischer returned to South
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Netherlands. 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. The marshy soil underneath the site required a lighter structure than the solid masonry that Fischer
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Charous, František Kalivoda, Otakar Oplatek, Josef Kranz, and Bohumil Tureček, among others. Some, such as Alexa,
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until 1893. Moving to Vienna, Fischer then studied building technology with the historicist architect Emil Ritter von Förster in 1894–95. Fischer worked as an intern in von Förster's office and later in the 1890s under
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Fischer's own practice also turned decidedly towards the modernist trends then sweeping central Europe, particularly the Functionalist vein of Czech architecture that became popular in the 1920s and 1930s, influenced strongly by the
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as its first dean. Fischer was appointed to its faculty in 1923, where he served as dean of the faculty of architecture and civil engineering in 1924–25 and 1935–36, eventually becoming the university rector for 1931–32.
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had proclaimed in late 1918. The Czech
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