http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7k40394p No online items Finding Aid for the Albert Frey papers, circa 1924-1993 0000134 Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino The finding aid for this collection was made possible by a Getty Foundation Archival Arrangement & Description Grant. Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Arts Building Room 1434 University of California Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130 805-893-2724 [email protected] 2010 Finding Aid for the Albert Frey 0000134 1 papers, circa 1924-1993 0000134 Title: Albert Frey papers Identifier/Call Number: 0000134 Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum Language of Material: English Physical Description: 28.0 Linear feet(15 record storage boxes, 3 flat file drawers, and 3 models) Date (inclusive): circa 1924-circa 1993 Location note: Boxes 1-15/ADC - regular 3 Flat File Drawers/ADC - flat files 3 Models/Mosher - models (models were constructed for the UCSB Art Museum Exhibit Albert Frey: Modern Architect) Aluminaire house Minimal house Frey House creator: Chambers, Robson C., 1919-1999 creator: Clark, John Porter creator: Frey, Albert, 1903-1998 Access Open for use by qualified researchers. Custodial History note Gift of Albert Frey, 1989. Additional material gifted by Doug Henry, 2001. Preferred Citation note Albert Frey papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Biographical/Historical note Albert Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on October 18, 1903. Frey received his formal architectural training at the Institute of Technology in Winterthur, Switzerland. During his education at the Institute of Technology, Frey apprenticed for two years under the architect A. J. Arter in Zurich. Graduating in 1924, Frey traveled around Europe and settled by 1925 in Brussels where he worked for Jean-Jules Eggericx and Raphael Verwilghen. Leaving Eggericx and Verwilghen in 1927, Frey moved to France where he worked as a draftsman for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. In 1930, Frey’s visa application was approved and he relocated to New York. Shortly after arriving in New York, Frey found work with A. Lawrence Kocher with whom he worked until 1935. Kocher and Frey completed four buildings and co-authored many articles on urban planning, the modern aesthetic, and technology for Architectural Record during their partnership. By 1935, Frey had relocated to Palm Springs and began working with architect John Porter Clark. The two formed a partnership, which lasted twenty years. At the beginning of their partnership Clark and Frey operated under the name Van Pelt and Lind Architects, since neither Clark nor Frey was licensed at the time. By 1943, Clark and Frey had become licensed and were able to obtain public commissions which included schools, hospitals and a library. In 1952, Robson C. Chambers who had been an employee with the firm since 1946 was made a partner, and the firm was renamed Clark, Frey and Chambers. During his 63 years in Palm Springs, Frey’s most notable projects include: the Raymond Loewy house, the Guthrie house, the Clark & Frey Office building, the Aerial Tramway and Gas Station, Palm Springs City Hall, the Desert Hospital, the North Shore Yacht Club, Villa Hermosa, Frey House I and II. Frey continued to design buildings into the late 1980s. Albert Frey died on November 14, 1998, at the age of 95. Scope and Content Note The Albert Frey papers span 28 linear feet and date from circa 1924 to 1993. The collection primarily contains material concerning architectural projects Frey undertook in American between the years 1930 to 1982, in the form of architectural drawings and reprographic copies, black-and-white photographs, negatives, slides, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. The collection also includes Frey’s personal architectural reference books and color travel photographs, three-dimensional building samples from the Frey House II, his professional awards, and research notes. Related Archival Materials note David Gebhard papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Robson Chambers papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara. Albert Frey Archive, Palm Spings Art Museum. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, A. Lawrence Kocher Collection. Subjects and Indexing Terms Frey, Albert, 1903-1998 -- Archives Finding Aid for the Albert Frey 0000134 2 papers, circa 1924-1993 0000134 Architects -- California Architectural drawings Architectural firms -- California Architectural photographs Architecture -- California -- 20th century Architecture -- California -- Palm Springs Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California Correspondence Modern movement (Architecture) -- California Negatives Photographic prints Reprographic copies Sketches Personal Papers I. 1903-1992 Language of Material: English Physical Description: 1.58 Linear feet Scope and Contents note This series contains the personal papers of Albert Frey, and includes biographic information, correspondence, personal travel documented in sketches and color slides, and a portrait. Biographical Information 1903-1983 Box 1, Folder 1 Resume 1903-1983 Correspondence 1978 Box 1, Folder 2 "Natural History" 1978 Travel 1930-1974 Box 1, Folder 3 United States Map, Frey's Travel Route 1932-1934 Box 9, Folder 301 Air Force Academy, Colorado photographs 1969 Box 9, Amalfi-Paestum photographs n.d. Folder 302-303 Box 9, Folder 304 Arizona, Chelley-Oraibi photographs 1969 Box 9, Folder 305 Arizona-New Mexico, Meteor Crater, Petrified Forest, Gallup photographs 1969 Box 9, Folder 306 Arizona-Utah: Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Zion Canyon photographs 1969 Box 9, Folder 307 Borrego Springs photographs 1973 Box 9, Folder 308 Bremen to New York, Paris and New York photographs 1930-1933 Box 9, Folder 309 California, Nevada, Arizona, F.L. Wright, Taliesin West photographs 1934-1941 Box 9, Camogli-Tarquinia photographs 1962 Folder 310-311 Box 9, Folder 312 Expo 67 photographs n.d. Box 9, Folder 313 Garda-Verona photographs 1962 Box 9, Folder 314 German Pavilion photographs 1967 Box 9, Folder 315 Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland photographs 1973 Box 9, Folder 316 Grand Canyon photographs 1967 Box 9, Folder 317 Grand Canyon, Arizona/ High Sierras photographs 1941 Box 9, Folder 318 Grand Canyon North Rim photographs 1969 Finding Aid for the Albert Frey 0000134 3 papers, circa 1924-1993 0000134 Personal Papers I.1903-1992 Travel 1930-1974 Box 9, Folder 319 Guggenheim Museum photographs 1962 Box 9, Folder 320 Habitat photographs 1967 Box 9, Hawaii photographs 1951 Folder 321-322 Box 9, Honeymoon Trip: France, Switzerland, Italy photographs 1938 Folder 323-324 Box 9, Folder 325 Hurricane- Arizona/Utah photographs 1969 Box 9, Folder 326 La Jolla, Scottsdale photographs 1971 Box 9, Folder 327 Lake Powell photographs 1967 Box 9, Folder 328 Lake Tahoe, Owens Valley, Virginia City photographs 1971 Box 9, Folder 329 Le Corbusier photographs 1962 Box 9, Folder 330 Los Angeles to San Francisco photographs n.d. Box 9, Folder 331 Mesa Verde, Colorado photographs 1969 Box 9, Folder 332 Monument Valley photographs 1967 Box 9, Folder 333 New York photographs 1962 Box 9, New York photographs 1930-1933 Folder 334-336 Box 9, Folder 337 New York City photographs 1937-1939 Box 9, Folder 338 New York and East Coast photographs 1932 Box 9, Ostia-Capri photographs 1968 Folder 339-340 Box 9, Folder 341 Palm Canyon Area- Andreas, Murray, etc. at House photographs 1971 Box 9, Folder 342 Palm Springs photographs 1965 Box 9, Folder 343 Palm Springs to New York and New York to Palm Springs photographs 1937-1939 Box 9, Folder 344 Palm Springs and Environs, trip to Hoover Dam photographs 1934-1937 Box 9, Folder 345 Palm Springs Environs photographs n.d. Box 9, Folder 346 Pueblos, New Mexico photographs 1969 Box 10, Rainbow Bridge photographs 1967 Folder 347 Box 10, Riviera photographs n.d. Folder 348-349 Box 10, Ronchamp, France photographs 1955 Folder 350 Box 10, San Jacinto Tram to Hidden Lake photographs 1972 Folder 351 Box 10, Schonreid, Zurich, etc. Switzerland photographs 1973 Folder 352 Box 10, Sedona photographs 1967 Folder 353 Box 10, Sirmione photographs 1962 Folder 354 Box 10, Southern California Architecture: Los Angeles, Pomona, Fresno photographs Folder 355 1965-1974 Box 10, Southern California Architecture photographs 1965 Folder 356 Box 10, Switzerland photographs 1962-1973 Folder 357-358 Box 10, Switzerland, Milano Triennale, Paris, Le Corbusier and Anore Lurcat photographs Folder 359-360 1933 Box 10, Unidentified Travel photographs 1966 Folder 361-362 Box 10, United States Pavilion photographs 1967 Folder 363 Box 10, Venice photographs 1962 Folder 364 Finding Aid for the Albert Frey 0000134 4 papers, circa 1924-1993 0000134 Personal Papers I.1903-1992 Travel 1930-1974 Box 14 Travel sketches Venice and unidentified 1925 and undated Physical Description: 0.5 Linear feet Scope and Contents note Two pencil sketches of Venice, both on tracing paper, mounted on boards. Signed and dated on the reverse, and a folder of photocopies of sketches. Box 10, West Coast to New York Trip photographs 1932 Folder 365-366 Box 10, West Coast: San Francisco to San Diego photographs 1932 Folder 367-368 Box 10, Wyoming: Yellowstone Park, Jackson Hole photographs 1969 Folder 369 Box 10, Yosemite photographs 1965 Folder 370 Photographs 1930-1932 Box