PALM SPRINGS LIFE APRRIL 2018 The 1931 Aluminaire House will take its rightful place among a legend’s many Palm Springs’ gems. The project has become something of a cause célèbre in architecture-mad Palm Springs. “We are thrilled that the community has been so enthusiastic,” says Campani. “We know that Aluminaire will enhance the growing industry […]
Read MoreSMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 23, 2018 First American Project by Desert Modernism Architect to be Rebuilt in Palm Springs. It will join the rest of Albert Frey’s work. Swiss-born Albert Frey was Palm Springs’ first full-time, resident architect. Read Full Article
Read MoreTHE DESERT SUN FEBRUARY 23, 2018 “We’re so close to actually seeing something happen,” said Mark Rios, a landscape architect whose firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios has been working with the city on this park for at least five years now. Incorporating the Aluminaire House into the park, was an “interesting challenge” he said, because […]
Read MoreARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER FEBRUARY 19, 2018 The 1,200-square-foot, all-metal house arrived in the high desert early last year on the back of a freight truck, just in time for the annual Modernism Week celebration. The disassembled structure has sat in storage in the months since, as preparations continue for its final installation as a house museum […]
Read MoreTHE DESERT SUN FEBRUARY 16, 2018 Frey had been in New York casting about for a job after completing the Aluminaire house. The Aluminaire had been a revolutionary idea, designed together with Kocher, and assembled modern living from readily available pre-made parts. That seems quite natural now, too, but employing simple, industrial materials in their […]
Read MoreWALLPAPER MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 15, 2018 New home for Albert Frey’s Aluminaire house revealed at Palm Springs Modernism Week. As the first all metal pre-fabricated house in the US, and one that brought together the concepts of mass production and high density community planning, it galvanized a new American architectural movement, and was featured in the […]
Read MoreLA TIMES FEBRUARY 13, 2018 Albert Frey may be remembered as one of the celebrated fathers of Desert Modernism, but the Swiss-born architect’s first American project was actually a model house in New York. “It’s very rare for one city to have the entire arc of an architect’s career, from the first building to his […]
Read MoreL.A. CURBED FEBRUARY 6, 2018 The long journey to find a permanent home is almost over for the Aluminaire House, considered to be the seminal modernist prefab home. The house, designed by Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher in 1931, is set to be permanently installed in a new Palm Springs park that will built […]
Read MoreTHE DESERT SUN FEBRUARY 02, 2018 Architectural tourism is a thriving industry for the city of Palm Springs. Our community boasts a rich architectural heritage of iconic commercial and residential buildings that draw thousands of tourists from around the world to our city. One of the many architects that added to our rich portfolio of […]
Read MorePALM SPRINGS LIFE FEBRUARY 2018 Albert Frey began his career studying Beaux Arts design in Zurich before making a radical shift to modernism, working as one of just two full-time employees for Le Corbusier in Paris. Most young architects would have been content under the great Le Corbusier’s wing, but an extended visit to New […]
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FEBRUARY 2018
Albert Frey began his career studying Beaux Arts design in Zurich before making a radical shift to modernism, working as one of just two full-time employees for Le Corbusier in Paris. Most young architects would have been content under the great Le Corbusier’s wing, but an extended visit to New York in 1930 changed Frey’s life. There he formed a partnership with American architect A. Lawrence Kocher; in 1931, the two designed the first all-metal domestic structure, the Aluminaire House. But their most fateful collaboration was the Kocher-Samson Building in Palm Springs (1934). Frey fell in love with the desert; except for brief forays, he never left it again. He developed what would become known as desert modernism, addressing the extreme environment through his unorthodox choice of industrial materials
PALM SPRINGS LIFE
FEBRUARY 2018
Albert Frey began his career studying Beaux Arts design in Zurich before making a radical shift to modernism, working as one of just two full-time employees for Le Corbusier in Paris. Most young architects would have been content under the great Le Corbusier’s wing, but an extended visit to New York in 1930 changed Frey’s life. There he formed a partnership with American architect A. Lawrence Kocher; in 1931, the two designed the first all-metal domestic structure, the Aluminaire House. But their most fateful collaboration was the Kocher-Samson Building in Palm Springs (1934). Frey fell in love with the desert; except for brief forays, he never left it again. He developed what would become known as desert modernism, addressing the extreme environment through his unorthodox choice of industrial materials
