Now, the three-story, 1,100-square-foot Aluminaire House is the newest and oldest structure designed by Albert Frey in Palm Springs. The Swiss architect has been hailed as the father of Desert ...

Three years after arriving in pieces, the celebrated Aluminaire House designed by the desert’s preeminent midcentury architect, Albert Frey, has yet to find its permanent home in Palm Springs.

Now part of the permanent collection at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the story of Albert Frey’s “Aluminaire House,” and its significance in the history of architecture is quite remarkable.

Designed by Albert Frey, a young Swiss architect newly arrived from Le Corbusier’s atelier, and the American architect A. Lawrence Kocher, the Aluminaire House signalled the future—built of ...

The Aluminaire show house, one of the works by modernist architecture master Albert Frey, has been newly transported from New York to a site adjoining the Palm Springs Art Museum. Frey (1903-1998), a ...

The long road to find a permanent home and restore what may be one of Albert Frey’s most at-risk buildings will pick up steam this week as organizers aiming to relocate the Aluminaire House to ...

An exhibition profiling the work of Albert Frey coincides with the house’s re-exhibition. (Benny Chan) The opening of the Aluminaire House coincides with a retrospective about Albert Frey.

Michael Schwarting Frey was fond of the metal ... “Sunnyside is low key and brick, and the Aluminaire house is bright and shiny.” The house — a three-story cube with around 1,200 square ...

The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.

The Aluminaire House, which was designed by Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, has since become an icon of modernist design, and was recently listed by Architectural Record as one of the most ...

Aluminaire House — a distinctive-looking all-metal ... Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey. Their aim: to show a shining example of functional Modernist architecture, as well as a nascent form ...