The Lost Architecture of Jean Welz

PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW. By Peter Wyeth 346 pages.June 22, 2022. Softcover. Fully illustrated, b/w with spot color and 8 color plates.$39.95 | 9781954600003 (pb)ebook also available Book design by Jessica Fleischmann / still room   A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing. A leading painter still highly regarded in South Africa, Jean Welz was an economic emigre from Europe on the eve of WWII. His prior architectural career has been virtually unknown until a string of discoveries unfolded for author and filmmaker Peter Wyeth over a decade, allowing him to narrate this amazing true tale of genius. Born in 1900 and trained in ultra-sophisticated, but conservative Vienna, Welz was sent to Paris for the 1925 Art Deco exhibition by his influential employer, renowned architect Josef Hoffmann. There he met preeminent modern architects Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos. The latter employed him to ass