Photo: Julius Shulman

Tramway Gas Station (detail), 1965 (Frey & Chambers) Photo: M. Stern Palm Springs City Hall, 1952 Frey & Chambers, John Porter Clark and E. Stewart Williams Photo: M. Stern

ALBERT FREY, FAIA, was born 1903 in Switzerland, and educated there. Worked for Le Corbusier in Paris in 1928. Moved to New York in 1930 and became partners with A. Lawrence Kocher, where they built the Aluminaire House. Came to Palm Springs in 1934 to supervise construction of the Kocher-Samson Building. He permanently relocated to Palm Springs in 1939, where he would design a body of work including residential, commercial, institutional and civic buildings. Text: Tony Merchell

BUILDINGS
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Kocher-Samson Building 1934-35 (A. Lawrence Kocher & Albert Frey) Photo: Albert Frey	Frey House I 1940 Photo: Julius Shulman
Loewy House 1946-47 Photo: David Glomb	Tramway Valley Station 1949-63 (Albert Frey & Robson C. Chambers) Photo: M. Stern (Note: Paint coloration not original)
Palm Springs City Hall 1952 (Frey, Clark, Chambers, Williams) Photo: Julius Shulman	Frey House I Addition 1953 Photo: Julius Shulman
Fire Station No. 1 1955 (Frey & Chambers) Photo: M. Stern	Alpha Beta Food Market 1960 (Frey & Chambers) Photo: Julius Shulman
Frey House II 1963-1964 Photo: Julius Shulman	Tramway Gas Station 1965 (Frey & Chambers) Photo: Palm Springs Historical Society

AN INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT FREY

The Palm Springs Modern Committee

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