Albert Frey Basic Art G Koenig Hardcover
Albert Frey Basic Art G Koenig Hardcover Architect Albert Frey (1903-1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. On a visit to Palm Springs, he fell under the desert spell. Born in Zurich, he studied…
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Albert Frey Basic Art G Koenig Hardcover
Architect Albert Frey (1903-1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. On a visit to Palm Springs, he fell under the desert spell. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of architectural opportunity.
Like fellow Californian luminary, John Lautner, Frey would spend the rest of his career nurturing the consonance of architecture and nature: studying the fall of sunlight and rain, and merging aluminum, steel, and glass with the boulders and sands of the West Coast wilds. It was here, amid the arid and empty landscape, that he could truly envisage a perfect modern future. His vision centered in particular on Palm Springs, capitalizing on the city's postwar population boom to create a bastion of the sleek, leisurely modernism that defines midcentury California.
In this dependable architect introduction,