Alfred Albini


Alfred Albini was a Croatian Jewish architect. He received a Vladimir Nazor Award for architecture and urban planning.
Albini was born and died in Zagreb, Croatia. He worked at the of Viktor Kovačić and Hugo Ehrlich and as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb. He projected single-family houses and apartment buildings, together with civic buildings. He synthesized modernistic ideas into his own architectural expression. He discussed the problem of urban planning and the protection of landmarks, wrote expert works and theoretical articles and painted. Albini died on 4 November 1978 in Zagreb. He was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.

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