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Praise for Welz's Maison Zilveli One of the last testimonies of modernism in intramural Paris is the the Maison Zilveli by the Viennese architect Jean Welz, near Adolf Loos and the Roche du Corbusier house. [...] British filmmaker Peter Wyeth, very involved in the preservation of the house, explains that it is very rare to have a modernist house that has remained unchanged: it is a real case study. -Le Journal des Arts [Maison Zilveli is] the most avant-garde house in the whole Paris area. -Tim Benton, author of Le Corbusier conferencier (winner 200 Prix National du Livre) and The Modernist Home (V&A Publications), among other writing The future of this avant-garde masterpiece of the architect Jean Welz remains in the balance. -Iconic Houses

Praise History has generally been unkind to architects who failed to hit the headlines with publications and an effective publicity machine. Peter Wyeth is to be commended not only for rediscovering Jean Welz and his work but also for reconstructing the network of interactions, innovations and transmission of ideas that constitute the real history of architecture. Our understanding of modern architecture in Paris and South Africa has been enriched. -Tim Benton, author of The Villas of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret 1920-1930 Peter Wyeth's vivid and remarkable excavation of the life and work of the Viennese-born architect Jean Welz is a splendid contribution to the history of modernism. Welz, who had been all but forgotten till now, was closely connected with two of the titans of the age, Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos, but, even more, he was an excellent architect whose work was sensitive, beautiful, and inventive. Wyeth tells his story well, bringing known aspects of the tale of modern architecture into sharper focus, while adding much that is new. - Christopher Long, author of The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture Praise for Welz's Maison Zilveli One of the last testimonies of modernism in intramural Paris is the the Maison Zilveli by the Viennese architect Jean Welz, near Adolf Loos and the Roche du Corbusier house. [...] British filmmaker Peter Wyeth, very involved in the preservation of the house, explains that it is very rare to have a modernist house that has remained unchanged: it is a real case study. -Le Journal des Arts The future of this avant-garde masterpiece of the architect Jean Welz remains in the balance. -Iconic Houses

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"Peter Wyeth has been making films since the 1970s, including several with the Arts Council of Great Britain, one of which about a modernist block of flats in London, inspired by Hokusai (""12 Views of Kensal House"") was runner-up for best documentary. He started a forgotten film-mag North by North West, and in 1994 directed ""The Diary of Arthur Crew Inman,"" based on the 17-million-word and longest diary in America and named a London Times ""Film of the Week."" From 19992003, Wyeth was head of the film school at University of the Arts London, where he taught for ten years and set up the student-run channel Xplore.tv. His short film ""Pane"" won a Turner Classic Movies award in 2003. His book The Matter of Vision: Effective Neurobiology and Cinema was published by Indiana University Press in 2015 (in the UK by John Libbey Media) and over the past twelve years he has written dozens of articles on architecture and design for The Modernist. He continues to direct, including for television. He lives between Paris and London."

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