Ciril Metod Koch

Hauptmann's House on Ljubljana's Prešeren Square, renovated in the Vienna Secession style by C. M. Koch in 1904.

Ciril Metod Koch (31 March 1867 - 6 May 1925) was a Slovene architect. Together with Max Fabiani, he introduced the Vienna Secession style in the Slovene Lands.

He was born in Kranj, then part of the Duchy of Carniola in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, now in Slovenia. He studied in Ljubljana, Graz, and in Vienna. In 1893, he got a job in the Ljubljana City Urban Planning Office. He rose to prominence after the Ljubljana earthquake, when he reconstructed several buildings in the Vienna Secession style.

Between 1895 and 1910, he designed numerous buildings in Ljubljana, Celje, Radovljica, Opatija, Bohinj and Šternberk.

He died in Ljubljana.

Sources

• Slovenian Biographical Lexicon
• Robert Simonišek, The Architecture of Ciril Metod Koch (Slovene)

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Name	Koch, Ciril Metod
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Date of birth	31 March 1867
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Date of death	6 May 1925
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