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Meet the Father of Desert Modernism, Albert Frey

Written by Kelly Weimert on Friday, October 18th, 2019 at 11:05am.

Source: daledoesthedesert.com; portrait by Julius Schulman Albert Frey was an American architect from Switzerland who created his own style of modernist architecture in Palm Springs, called “desert modernism.” Frey attended architecture school in Zurich in 1924, where he received technical building instruction while studying the De Stijl, Bauhaus, and modernism movements, all of which heavily influenced his design style.  In 1928, Frey became one of two full-time employees in the Paris atelier, working under the supervision and guidance of architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Frey left Paris the same year for the United States but retained a strong friendship with Le Corbusier throughout his life.  Being that Frey was the first U.S. architect to wo...