Albert Frey's Aluminaire House acquired by the Palm Springs Art Museum
The Palm Springs Art Museum has announced its acquisition of Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher's Aluminaire House, a futuristic prefabricated home that will be installed at the foot of the museum adjacent to a new public park. The Desert Sun reports that the nonprofit Aluminaire House Foundation, the group that trucked the disassembled house from the East Coast to Palm Springs in 2017, hopes to finally erect the structure once again sometime next year. Site plan for the RIOS-designed Palm Springs Downtown Park showing the Aluminaire House in the lower left corner. Image courtesy of RIOS.The house was originally exhibited in New York in 1931 and changed locations several times, ultimately ending up on the campus of New York Institute of Technology before architects Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani created the Foundation as part of an effort to find a permanent home for the building. After raising the necessary funds, the building was shipped across the country and has sat in...
The Palm Springs Art Museum has announced its acquisition of Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher's Aluminaire House, a futuristic prefabricated home that will be installed at the foot of the museum adjacent to a new public park.
The Desert Sun reports that the nonprofit Aluminaire House Foundation, the group that trucked the disassembled house from the East Coast to Palm Springs in 2017, hopes to finally erect the structure once again sometime next year.
The house was originally exhibited in New York in 1931 and changed locations several times, ultimately ending up on the campus of New York Institute of Technology before architects Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani created the Foundation as part of an effort to find a permanent home for the building. After raising the necessary funds, the building was shipped across the country and has sat in...
