This Pre-Modernista architect was a master builder before qualifying as an architect in 1877. From then on he was the architect of Barcelona Provincial Council, and it was while he held that position that he designed the Casa Provincial de la Maternitat i Expòsits (Provincial Maternity Hospital and Foundlings Home, 1889; Travessera de les Corts, 131-159), in which some of the characteristic features of Modernista architecture, such as open brickwork and the use of polychrome ceramics for ornamentation, can already be seen. He was responsible for the nursing mothers' wards and the Ave Maria "weaned babies" ward, the rest of the buildings being the work of other architects. He worked with the architect A. Gaudí on the interior decoration of Palau Gu?ell (1885-1889; Nou de la Rambla, 3-5). Shortly afterwards he collaborated with Joan Martorell in making the family vault of the marquis of Comillas in Comillas (Santander province).

He was responsible for starting up the publication of the Anuari de l'Associació d'Arquitectes (Yearbook of the Architects' Association) an organisation of which he was the secretary around 1880.