Designed by Albert Frey; completed 1931 Long Island, New York Designed by Albert Frey and Lawrence Kocher and completed 1931, the Aluminaire House represents one of the earliest examples of European-inspired Modern architecture in the eastern United States. The Aluminaire was one of only six American buildings chosen by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Phillip Johnson in 1932 for the New York Museum of Modern Art’s International Style exhibition and book, and of those six, it was the only private residence other than Richard Neutra’s Lovell House (1927–29). Like the Lovell House, the Aluminaire represented a merger of advanced building technology and advanced architectural expression, and as such, it exemplified many of Le Corbusier’s five points of architecture. This was mainly the result of the contributions of Albert Frey, a Swiss-born designer who worked in Le Corbusier’s studio before imigrating to the United States in 1930. Co-designer Lawrence Kocher, a Beaux-Artstrained architect fr...