Tristan Tzara House

Maison Tristan Tzara

building type

single-family house

involved parties

Adolf Loos (architecture)

address

intlworkpostalparcel
France
country
Ile-de-France
region
Departement 75
Département
Paris
city
18e
district
15, Avenue Junot
street
75018

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time line

period	description
1925–1926	planning and construction period

texts

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The symmetrical strassenfront swings easily inward. The base like also the retaining wall, with which the sloping area must be intercepted, led across two floors, are visible living immuring work, over it is smoothly cleaned the wall. Behind the entrance - the right of the two doors, which links leads to the garage, is - lies only a small resounds. Here stairs set, which confine in, for ravine-like cut in the straight run at a lodger flat to the one-room flat of the house gentleman lead past. The Romanian writer and Dadaist Tristan Tzara, a ' life and language artist of fiery aliveness and attack desire ', stated at that time together with André Breton those Paris avant-garde, which took a prominent position in European the world of art and literature. Over the mansion Tzara came also Adolf Loos into this circle. Further construction contracts, which it could probably expect thereby, were missing however. One looked for its advice, could also drafts be drawn - like the American Joséphine Baker, which celebrated in the middle of the twenties with its ' revue Nègre ' on the Champs Elysées of triumphs; if it concerned however the realization, nevertheless French colleagues were preferred to it.

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references

Frankreich 20. Jahrhundert | France 20th century
B. Lemoine
Birkhäuser Verlag; 2000
- 3-7643-6222-7 (engl.)
638 b/w illustrations, hardcover
with dust jacket and bookmark.
article in: Adolf Loos
P. Tournikiotis
Princeton Architectural Press; 1994
page 87–90
article in: Exkursionsführer Paris Sommer 94
Institut für Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen Prof. Jo Coenen, UNI Karlsruhe Bernd Wensch
Eigenverlag; 1994
page 132
article in: Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts | Architecture in the 20th century
P. Gössel, G. Leuthäuser, E. Schickler
Taschen Verlag; 1990
page 150
Radical residences for Josephine Baker and Tristan Tzara
in: Ad - Architectural Digest, 4/1991
T. S. Hines
page 104–112
Tristan Tzara house, Paris, France, 1926-27; architect: Adolf Loos
in: GA document, 1983,3
page 284–285