“In my youth, out of necessity, I had to produce a desired result with the least material and effort. Since then I found this principle to be a stimulating challenge to create, with aesthetic ...

The enormously popular Palm Springs Modernism Week with its open house tours may have just passed, but no worries if you couldn’t make it. So rich is the city’s and the surrounding Coachella Valley’s ...

To write another word about Albert Frey runs the risk of redundancy. The architect that firmly rooted the Coachella Valley in modernism has been the subject of countless articles, multiple books and, ...

How did an innovative exhibition house, designed in New York City in 1931 — and only meant to stand for seven days during a building trade expo — find itself rebuilt 93 years later in southern ...

In recognition of the iconic desert architect Albert Frey, Palm Springs Art Museum opened the most comprehensive exhibition and publication on his life and work to date.

You’re no doubt familiar with architect Albert Frey’s work — a massive angular roof he designed with Robson C. Chambers greets drivers heading into Palm Springs on Highway 111. The soaring topper — it ...

Albert Frey, photographed in front of the Frey House I. Photo © Julius Shulman/ J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10). After ...