Mid-century modern visionaries, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi are exhibited together at the Palm Springs Art Museum for an unprecedented show of models, drawings, design objects, and photographs, opened this fall and will remain on exhibit through January 7, 2018. 

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Mid-century modern visionaries, Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi are exhibited together at the Palm Springs Art Museum for an unprecedented show of models, drawings, design objects, and photographs, opened this fall and will remain on exhibit through January 7, 2018. The exhibit A Search for Living Architecture explores the shared belief of Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi, that architecture is a way to connect people, nature, building, and living. The mid-century show-stoppers are highlighted in the installation design by Bestor Architecture.“The parallel odysseys of Frey and Bo Bardi represent the emergence of Southern California and Sao Paulo as architectural laboratories of the mid-20th century,” said Elizabeth Armstrong, the museum’s executive director. “Although they never met, this exhibition shows how they each embraced the social and environmental contexts specific to their adoptive homes.” 
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The exhibition experience begins with the case studies of four homes, the glass-walled structures Albert Frey and Bo Bardi designed for themselves, Frey II House in Palm Springs, and Bo Bardi’s...