2024-05-05T11:06:48-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150378535/palm-springs-art-museum-announces-the-aluminaire-house-s-public-opening-and-permanent-exhibit Josh Niland 2023-09-29T18:07:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/de/de4105d8707901c61eb1dee91a3bf9a0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/731757/palm-springs-art-museum" target="_blank">Palm Springs Art Museum</a> has shared an update on the future of the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/311768/the-aluminaire-house" target="_blank">Aluminaire House</a> three years after acquiring the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/101769/albert-frey" target="_blank">Albert Frey</a> and A. Lawrence Kocher masterpiece to its permanent collection.</p> <p>The home, which had been <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150308111/albert-frey-s-futuristic-aluminaire-house-is-still-holed-up-in-desert-storage-limbo" target="_blank">lingering in a local storage space</a> since 2017, will now be reassembled and displayed in the museum's south parking lot. ADA compliance mandates had postponed the project even further after the museum was forced to refabricate many of the materials used in its construction, an effort that was not made possible until recently thanks to an ongoing $2.6 million capital campaign effort. According to the museum, $2.3 million in funding has been generated so far.</p> <p>The house will be erected and placed on view in February 2024, following the opening of a retrospective exhibition of Frey&rsquo;s other modernist designs around the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/608507/coachella-valley" target="_blank">Coachella Valley</a> on January 13, 2024.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c0/c0b718f5a1c66d3f4142fd56796781b5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c0/c0b718f5a1c66d3f4142fd56796781b5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Aluminaire House&trade; on-site at Palm Springs Art Museum, 2023. Rendering by Claudia Cengher | Courtesy of the Palm Sprin...</figcaption></figure> https://archinect.com/news/article/77916707/the-aluminaire-house-looks-to-sunnyside-gardens-as-its-possible-new-home Justine Testado 2013-07-25T18:31:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dc/dcseascejylp6eup.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey built the Aluminaire House in 1931 for an exhibition in New York City mostly out of mass-produced building materials donated by manufacturers. The project became recognized as an exemplary prototype of modern building forms and techniques at the time, while also introducing the idea of mass production and affordable home building in highly populated neighborhoods, a pressing issue that remains today. Over time, the Aluminaire House has been bought, relocated, redesigned, faced past threats of demolition, and even vandalized.<br><br> As explained in the press release below, the non-profit Aluminaire House Foundation, which was established to preserve the House, is currently aiming to relocate the structure to Sunnyside Gardens in Queens where it will be reconstructed to its original purpose for the first time since it was built.</p> <p> <em>The following article was submitted to us by Michel Schwarting...</em><br><br><strong>Aluminaire&nbsp; house&nbsp; foundation,&nbsp; inc.<br> 150-3&nbsp; east main street&nbsp; ...</strong></p>