Albert Frey Houses 1 + 2

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ISBN: 9781568981901
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 84 pages
24,1 x 16,5 cm
colour/black & white
April 1999
€15,25 (excl. VAT)

Albert Frey Houses 1 + 2

Jennifer Golub

Albert Frey worked in Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris, but he is most closely associated with the 1940s and 1950s desert architecture of Southern California, and with the work of architects such as Richard Neutra and John Lautner. This exquisitely designed monograph on Albert Frey focuses on two houses he built for himself in Palm Springs, California, one in 1941 (with an addition in 1953) and the other in 1964. This title, which was developed in collaboration with Frey himself, includes color and duotone photographs commissioned especially for this book.

"Palm Springs posh sprang up in a single moment and shared a single architectural dream: desert modernism – low, glassy, horizontal, sleek. It remains perfect." – Kurt Andersen, New Yorker