He arrived in Barcelona in 1888 and started attending drawing classes. In 1901 he went to the Barcelona School of Architecture, where he was taught by A. Gallissà, who asked him to work in his workshop on the drawings for the decorative elements, such as sgrafitti, which featured prominently in his buildings. When A. Gallissà died, he started to collaborate with J. Font i Gumà and worked with him on the alterations to the Ateneu Barcelonès (Barcelona Athenaeum, 1904-1906; Canuda, 6). Before graduating, he met A. Gaudí and shortly afterwards, in 1909, he began working with him on Park Güell (1900-1914) and later works such as the Sagrada Família (1882- unfinished).

He was a very good watercolourist and sketcher. Throughout his career he also designed all manner of objects and complementary elements such as furniture, mirrors, lights, lifts and so on (Tirador de la porta de la botiga Mañach [Mañach Shop Doorhandle], 1911; MNAC collection). In 1914 he obtained the position of lecturer in technical drawing at the Barcelona School of Architecture, although he had actually been working there as an assistant lecturer for many years, and was later made a professor in 1921.

His teaching duties and the commissions he received meant that his collaboration with A. Gaudí declined. His style, influenced by A. Gaudí, displays a high level of creativity due to his use of curves in the structural forms and decorative elements, both in interiors and on exteriors.

A large part of the buildings he constructed are in Sant Joan Despí, where he was municipal architect from 1926 to 1949. They include Torre de la Creu, also known as Casa dels Ous (Plaça de l'Estació, 1913), and Can Negre (Plaça de Catalunya, 1915). He also built a great deal in Tarragona. In Barcelona he did the decoration for the Mañach shop (1911; Ferran; no longer in existence) and Casa Fernando Meras Giberga (1907-1909; Tapioles, 51), and some years later Casa Planells (1923-1924; Diagonal, 332), which is reminiscent of A. Gaudí's style due to the undulating shapes of the façade.