Albert Frey (architect)

Albert Frey ( born October 18, 1903 in Zurich, † November 14, 1998 in Palm Springs ( California)) was a Swiss architect whose main place of activity focused on Palm Springs and was later referred to as desert modernism.

Life

Frey received his diploma in 1924 at the Technical School in Winterthur. There Frey attempted to traditional buildings, and received more technical jobs as design in the later popular Beaux- Arts style. Before he received his diploma title, he went with the architect AJ Arter in Zurich in teaching and working on jobs during his vacation time. In 1925 he went to Brussels to Eggericx and Verwilghen, 1928, he joined the staff of Le Corbusier in Paris, where he worked on the design of the Villa Savoye.

In 1930 he moved to the Unite States; in New York was until 1935 a joint venture with Alfred Lawrence Kocher ( 1885-1969 ), the editor of Architectural Record was. In addition to the four built designs of this partnership - their aluminum house for the Allied Arts and Building Products Exhibition was received broad - and Publikationenen in Architectural Record Frey worked alongside as a design architect for William Lescaze.

1934 pulled Frey for the detailed design of the Kocher- Samson House further to Palm Springs, California, where he met his next partner John Porter Clark ( 1905-1991 ), with whom he worked about twenty years. There Frey, who had meanwhile returned for the 1937-1939 to help design the Museum of Modern Art in New York devoted, " the appropriate response to the requirements of the California desert. The enclosed building cubes, designed independently of their location, are beginning to fray and fall as a single shear walls in the countryside. They are held together by the horizontal roof overlaid element which simultaneously acts as »

With the 1952 newly added partner Robson C. Chambers and leaving Clark's 1956 architecture of the office more striking and pictorial, which, for example, on the North Shore Yacht Club (1959 ) was at the Salton Sea can be read. In the 1960 years - Frey broke up in 1966 by Chambers and worked on alone - he returned to simpler forms.

Work (selection)

  • Project for a factory of steel and glass, Zurich, 1927
  • Nursing Home, contest entry, Zurich, 1928
  • Project for a minimal metal house, Zurich, 1928
  • Aluminium entrance, Syosset, Nassau County, New York, 1930-31 ( with Alfred Lawrence Kocher )
  • River Garden, settlement, 1931, Project for William Lescaze
  • Residential House Good -Frey, Zurich, 1933
  • Canvas - weekend home maker, Northport, New York, 1934
  • House Kocher- Samson, Palm Springs, 1934
  • Frey House I, Palm Springs, 1940 (1947, 1953)
  • Loewy House, Palm Springs, 1946-47
  • Base station of the Air Tram, Palm Springs, 1949-63 ( with John Porter Clark, and Robson C. Chambers )
  • Desert Hospital, Palm Springs, 1950-52
  • North Shore Yacht Club, Salton Sea, 1955-59
  • Air Tram Gas Station, Palm Springs, 1963-65
  • Frey House II, Palm Springs, 1963-64
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