ARCHITECTURAL WORLD

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...

Designed by Patrick Dujarric; completed in 1994 Kaolack, Senegal With his project for a new French cultural center in rural Senegal, architectanthropologist Patrick Dujarric gave a new twist to an indigenous architectural style. The Alliance FrancoSénégalaise that he completed in 1994 in Kaolack, links a vernacular tradition to a new decorative program. Kaolack is a rural city, with a population of approximately 150,000, that lies 160 kilometers southeast of Dakar in west-central Senegal on the right bank of the Saloum River. French cultural centers in West Africa ostensibly act to promote and disseminate French culture and language, but they are also important venues for showing African art forms, from films to paintings. With its reinvention of local architectural traditions, the Alliance Franco-Sénégalaise makes clear that this building does not simply house an institution affiliated with the French government but is also a local community center. Senegal is a former French colony, ...