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Aluminaire House (1931)
A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey
The Aluminaire House was designed in 1931 for the Architectural and Allied
Arts exhibition at the Grand Central Palace. The exhibition was sponsored
by the Architectural League of New York. The three-story, five-room
house of glass and metal was designed to demonstrate the viability of
low-cost houses using contemporary materials and methods of construction.
It was the first all-metal and glass house in the United States. Paul
Goldberger notes that it "is unquestionably one of the very first
buildings in the United States designed in the modernist International
style."
When the exhibition was over, the house was
purchased by architect Wallace K. Harrison, dismantled, and moved to Long
Island. In 1987, when the property was being sold by the then-owner and
the building faced destruction, a campaign to save it was initiated by the
Long Island chapter of the Americna Institute of Architecture. In was
dismantled and moved to the New York Institute of Technology Central Islip
campus.
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Plywood House
The Plywood House was a six-room small house
constructed of plywood, except for the roof sheathing. It was exhibited as
House No. 2 at the Town of Tomorrow at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
When the fair was over, it was purchased by William F. Leicester and
reassembled on his New Jersey farm. |