While training as an architect he also studied drawing and worked with the architect L. Domènech i Montaner on the 1888 Universal Exhibition in Barcelona.

He qualified as an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture in 1890, shortly after which, in 1891, he was appointed municipal architect and head of the fire service of Manresa, the town where he had been born. His early work is regarded as eclectic, but after visiting the 1900 International Exhibition in Paris he tended towards Art Nouveau. His work in Manresa focused on the construction of a large number of infrastructural buildings and the town's urban redevelopment.

The interior decoration of Fonda del Comerç (1893; Jaume I) and the renovation and enlargement of the Hospital de Sant Andreu (1894; Remei de Dalt, 3) belong to his early period as an architect. He also designed the Casino Club (1906; Passeig Pere III, 27-35 ) and the flour mill known as La Farinera la Florinda (1912; Bruc, 33-35).