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- Title
New Perspectives on Adolf Loos’s Parisian Villa for Tristan Tzara and Greta Knutson.
- Authors
POULOT, CÉCILE
- Abstract
This essay formulates a novel hypothesis about the commission and building of the Parisian villa built by the architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) between 1926 and 1927 for Tristan Tzara and Greta Knutson on the avenue Junot. The article is based on new primary sources discovered in France and Sweden as well as on published sources housed at the Albertina and at the Wien Bibliothek am Rathaus in Vienna. If the villa Tzara is certainly among Loos’ most important works and remains today the only trace of Loos’ Parisian period between 1923 and 1928, little is known about its construction. The newly discovered sources underline how little the architect was involved in its construction, the difficulties with it, and the lack of collaboration between the contractor and the client. To better understand the stages of the commission and construction, the article seeks to go back to the rather poor situation of Loos in Paris and to his entourage in the city. If the relationship between Tzara and Loos still remains difficult to document, other architects seem to have worked on the construction of the villa such as Gabriel Guévrékian, Jean (Hans) Welz and Pierre Boudriot, whose involvement has been until today undocumented or underestimated. The difficult order and collaboration between Loos and Tzara is documented by the couple’s personal papers: they first seem to have consulted Le Corbusier and they then regularly complain about the construction works on avenue Junot.
- Subjects
LOOS, Adolf, 1870-1933; DOMESTIC architecture design &; construction; TZARA, Tristan; KNUTSON, Greta; HISTORY of architectural design
- Publication
Art / Umění, 2020, Vol 68, Issue 3, p301
- ISSN
0049-5123
- Publication type
Article