Maison de Tristan Tzara

Grandes-Carrières, France

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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In the Grandes-Carrières district of Paris, Adolf Loos designed this modernist single-family home for the Romanian Dada poet and impresario Tristan Tzara. Completed in the early twentieth century, the house exemplifies Loos's influential approach to modern architecture, stripped of ornamental excess and defined by rational spatial planning and clean geometric forms. The residence has been recognized as a monument historique and designated part of France's twentieth-century architectural patrimony, securing its place among the era's significant examples of avant-garde domestic design.