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A comprehensive volume on Swiss-American architect Albert Frey, whose ""simple but severe"" style of Desert Modernism cemented his legacy as one of the most influential architects worldwide.Inventive Modernist tracks the scope and significance of Frey’s career, from his early days in Paris working with Le Corbusier to his rise as the iconic architect of Palm Springs. With full access to Frey’s various archives, the book provides many rare and previously unexhibited architectural models, drawings, films, photographs, and furniture, and offers an exceptional visual guide that goes far beyond the mere documentation of finished buildings. New academic research, in-depth essays, and a thorough, illustrated listing of the architect’s projects between 1925 and 1997 serve to contextualize Frey’s relevance today while securing his importance as a twentieth-century architectural master.

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This book as an object alone gave me an even richer experience of Frey’s work than the museum exhibition it was based on. The deliberateness of its design...match the precision of the architect’s work. – Julie D. Taylor, Society of Architectural Historians Southern California Chapter Albert Frey was in love with the desert and with architecture. By fully integrating his designs with nature in the small desert town of Palm Springs, Frey’s work became iconic on an international scale. – Brad Dunning, curator & editor of Inventive Modernist

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Albert Frey (1903-1998) was a world-class architect who helped establish Palm Springs as a world-recognized center for modern architecture and design. He was the first architect to design a modern International Style structure for Palm Springs and paved the way for modern architecture and the architects that followed. Steeped in early European modernism, Frey's adroit handling of low-cost and low-maintenance industrial materials, sublime desert color combinations, and appealing geometric compositions give him a unique and permanent place in the idiom of ""desert modernism"" and succinctly expressed his two greatest loves—nature and architecture.

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