FREY

The desert modernistIn 1930, when Albert Frey (1903-1998) came to the US from his native Switzerland, he brought the influence of hi s mentor, Le Corbusier, with him. The innovative Aluminaire House that he developed together with A. L. Kocher was exhibited in 1932 by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in the legendary show in the Museum of Modern Art in New York The International Style : Architecture since 1922 as one of the very few American examples of the movement. Soon after, Frey discovered the California deser t, where...[Leer más]