Albert Frey’s 1931 Aluminaire House™ and Its Influence on American Modernism

In anticipation of the Palm Springs Art Museum’s permanent installation of the 1931 Aluminaire House™, architect Leo Marmol will explore the impact this structure had on American Modernism design.

Marmol will trace the varied influences of Modern Architecture in California from Le Corbusier’s revolutionary treatise, The Five Points of Architecture and Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus Manifesto, to the social, economic, and geographic conditions that made the arid region of Palm Springs so ripe for the cultivation and proliferation of Modern Architecture – hence the ideal permanent home for Aluminaire.

Following the talk join attendees for a reception in the museum’s sculpture garden to celebrate the groundbreaking.