Meghann cooke biography of albert
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Obituary of Edith Mae Cooke
Edith Mae "Edie" (Laffan) Cooke, 81 years old, of Wayne, born in Kings County Hospital the daughter of William "Dick" and Edith (Anderson) Laffan and raised in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, NY, was the eldest of five sisters, the late Margaret Pearsall, Mary Auletti, the late Ellen Antioco and Maureen Spiezia. She attended Visitation, 98 Richard Street and finished her education at St. Joseph HS on Willoughby Street. Edie had a few jobs working in an office but she also worked at an ice cream parlor in her neighborhood. The legend goes that Bill, her future husband, heard that "the most beautiful girl in Brooklyn" worked there. He set his sights to meet her. The courtship was short and on December 12, they were married. They moved to Jersey City for about 3 years and then to North Arlington before moving to Wayne, NJ in She was the matriarch of the Cooke family, having ten children, Billy, the lat
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Albert Frey (architect)
Swiss-born architect who established a style of modernist architecture centered on Palm Springs
Albert Frey (FRAY; October 18, – November 14, ) was a Swiss-born architect who established a style of modernist architecture centered on Palm Springs, California, United States, that came to be known as "desert modernism".[1]
European years
[edit]Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Frey received his architecture diploma in from the Technikum engineering school in Winterthur, Switzerland. There, Frey trained in traditional building construction and received technical instruction rather than design instruction in the then popular Beaux-Arts style. Prior to receiving his diploma, Frey apprenticed with the architect A. J. Arter in Zurich and worked in construction during his school vacations.
It was also around this time that Frey became aware of the Dutch De Stijl movement, the German Bauhaus school and movement, and the modernism movement developing
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