Albert Frey

Swiss-American · 1903–1998

Worked briefly for Le Corbusier in Paris, then settled in Palm Springs in 1934 and practised there for the rest of his life, using industrial materials on desert sites.

architecture

Buildings

Movements

Read off the work below rather than asserted of the person: a building sits in a movement in a way a career does not.

Desert modernism1940–1969

In this manner

The nearest thing in the studio — offered as a resemblance, not a lineage. Rendering a room in Low-maintenance gravel is not building a Desert modernism.

Reference: en.wikipedia.org