Tour of Little Switzerland – A Modernist Enclave Near Knoxville, TN, designed by Alfred and Jane West Clauss

You are bidding on a two-hour walking tour of three of houses in LIttle Switzerland designed by Alfred and Jane West Clauss, for a maximum of 8 people.

“The heroic nature of what Clauss and West did here in Knoxville is an untold story,” said Sanders, who lives in one of the houses and hasn’t yet decided how he will use the others. He hopes to eventually return all five of the houses in Little Switzerland to their original condition. “My goal is to celebrate the influence of their work within our region.” 

Born in Munich, Germany, in 1906, Alfred Clauss worked at van der Rohe’s office from 1928 to 1929, assisting with the design and construction of the Barcelona Pavilion, according to the book “Europe Meets America: William Lescaze, Architect of Modern Housing.” He emigrated to the U.S., where he worked with architects George Howe and William Lescaze on the design of the PSFS building in Philadelphia. Jane West Clauss, born in Minneapolis in 1907, spent a year working at Le Corbusier’s atelier in Paris, according to her memoir. In 1934, the year the couple were married, Alfred Clauss was hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority as an associate architect and they moved to Knoxville, where they lived until 1945, according to Avigail Sachs, an architecture professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

See more: https://sanderspace.com/2023/07/june-2023/ 

**Tour must be scheduled after September 5th, 2025.Winning bidder must redeem this item prior to 09.04.2026.

• Company Name : Sanders Pace Architecture