Slovenian architect, urban planner and teacher Jože Plečnik (23. 1. 1872 Ljubljana – 7. 1. 1957 Ljubljana) trained as a carpenter, then studied architecture at the Vienna Academy under Professor Otto Wagner. Through the intercession of Jan Kotěra, he obtained a professorship at the Prague School of Applied Arts in 1911. In 1921, at the request of the president of the TGM, he undertook the overall renovation of Prague Castle and the chateau in Lány. At the same time, however, he was engaged in extensive urban planning, architectural and pedagogical work in Ljubljana and needed a representative at the Castle who could implement his plans. He chose his Prague pupil Otto Rothmayer, with whom he also collaborated on the construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord in Prague's Vinohrady district in 1929–1932. Their collaboration ended in 1934 in connection with the abdication of President Masaryk and Plečnik's permanent departure to Ljubljana, but they remained friends.