(b Zagreb, 12 April 1896; d Zagreb, 27 Sept 1981). Croatian architect. He studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1918–19), and the High Technical School, Zagreb, and then worked in the studios of Hugo Ehrlich and Edo Sen, both in Zagreb. He later collaborated with Mladen Kauzlaric. His earlier buildings were influenced by Viktor Kovacic and show the decorative touches of the Viennese tradition combined with pure volumes, notably in the residential building (1926) at Zvonarnicka Street, Zagreb, and the National Health Building (1927), Zvijezda, Zagreb. Denzler later turned his attention to pure forms and spaces of clear functional expression, for example the City Services Building (1935), Kavuric Street, Zagreb. He was a master of formal organization, particularly in the use of materials to emphasize the relationship of different elements, such as doors and windows, to the whole composition. Of his considerable output, other important buildings are a chapel on Mount Sljeme (1931), Zagreb; the church of the Holy Ghost (1932), Zagreb; the Jesuit Church (1933), Belgrade; and private villas. In his work as a professor of the history of architecture at the University of Zagreb (from 1939), he emphasized the importance of classical forms.