America's First Metal House - Aluminaire House (1931) by Albert Frey and A.Lawrence Kocher

The Aluminaire House (1931) designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey based in Palm Springs, California.
The Aluminaire House was unique for its time. It was marketed as Americas first house entirely clad in metal and was designed as a prototype for pre-fabricated housing. The 2 architects responsible were A. Lawrence Kocher and the Swiss-born Albert Frey whos architectural legacy in lightweight minimalist structures, defined much of Palm Springs modernist developments. Their philosophy for the design of the house was simple, to exhibit a new american home made from cheap and accessible materials which can be mass-produced and sold to middle-class families, as a response to the Great depression, but still keeping quality interior spaces in mind. If mass produced, construction was estimated to cost 3200 dollars, or 66,000 dollars after inflation. The prototype was constructed in 10 days and exhibited at the Architectural and Allied Arts Exhibition in New York as well as being chosen as one of six projects for the 1932 museum of modern art show titled: The International Style - Architecture since 1922.

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