Please join the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture for Under the Influence 005 with Caroline Dahl and Heidi Duckler.

Building Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice. 

Publication launch for Kristin Posehn’s Inverted Dome.

Snapshots from a suspended moment within a global pandemic: artists, architects and thinkers with feet in both Vienna and Los Angeles consider the shape of a future in flux.

The presentation will take place simultaneously in Los Angeles and Vienna.

The MAK Center presents the exhibition catalog launch for Autonomous Design, published in collaboration with PIN-UP magazine. Join us to celebrate the launch, and for a conversation with curator Priscilla Fraser.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents the publication launch of (self-portraits as) neither donkey nor horse, a collection of recent work by stephanie mei huang, curated by Hauser & Wirth summer resident Allison C Smith.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents the exhibition catalog launch for Soft Schindler, published in collaboration with PIN-UP magazine. Artist Ian Markell interprets the works on view at the Schindler’s House in black and white photographs, accompanied by essays by writer Leslie Dick and journalist Susan Orlean.

Curator Mimi Zeiger will lead an exhibition walk-thru followed by a conversation between Ian Markell and Leslie Dick, moderated by PIN–UP editor/creative director Felix Burrichter.

Please join us for a picnic at the Schindler House to celebrate the release of artist Esther Choi’s new art/cookbook, Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics. Held in conjunction with the MAK’s current exhibition, Soft Schindler, the event will take place in an installation designed by Laurel Consuelo Broughton of Welcome Projects. Le Corbuffet-inspired nibbles by chef Gina Correll and Casey Dobbins will be on offer, as well as corbooziers courtesy of Yola Mezcal. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Soft Schindler curator Mimi Zeiger will lead a discussion with Choi and Broughton, followed by Q&A.

Norman Klein‘s new collection of essays, Tales of the Floating Class, reveals shared ironies in the arts and urban culture over the past fifty years. It studies the amnesiac effects of globalization upon the narrative structure of television, video, animation, photography and installation art, as well as the shapeshifting that has overwhelmed cities and entertainment spaces. Using Los Angeles and the West as one focal point, various case studies trace the growth of the Floating Class, an expression from the late nineteenth century referring to the outliers who would mill around city parks, crowding the rallies, while listening to rabble-rousing public speakers. These sites were also known as “bughouse squares,” because they sponsored extreme haranguing of all sorts. In earlier centuries, many had been fairgrounds for vendors selling artisanal goods. After 1850, they became a sounding board for the new city, even for avant-garde movements across the arts. Today, the Floating Class exists more internally, for example, in vigilante social networks. Its precarious numbers have grown a hundred-fold. They suffer the mad indignities of a gig economy, and neo-feudal indenture. They try not to feel caught like wild salmon in Trump’s hair. Klein writes in comic flourishes that layer fact and fiction. That is because the line between the real and the imaginary has radically blurred, inside the comic picaresque that defines our history today. Featured are twenty-two essays and fictions that have been reedited from their original published version.

Join the MAK Center for Art and Architecture for a panel discussion on 100 years of Bauhaus and the legacy of the institution with Michael Boyd (Furniture and Landscape Designer), Mariestella Casciato (Curator of Architecture, Getty Research Institute), Kurt W. Forster (Visiting Professor, Yale School of Architecture), Lars Müller (Designer and Publisher), and Priscilla Fraser (Director, MAK Center for Art & Architecture.)

During visits to Los Angeles, Sandra Peters became preoccupied with the work of architect R.M. Schindler: from installations that resemble portraits of some individual Schindler houses to a cube structure (Interface No. 1) responding to the bilateral-diagonal roof configuration of the How House (1925), Schindler’s work became the point of departure for the artist’s multifaceted confrontation with the form of the cube that is documented within this publication.

The MAK Center was pleased to host a book release and panel discussion featuring author Martino Stierli, author and UC Irvine professor Ed Dimendberg, USC associate professor Amy Murphy, art historian and UC Irvine professor Sally Stein, and architectural historian and Carleton University assistant professor Inderbir Riar.

A panel discussion and launch of the Art Los Angeles Reader’s fourth issue: a special collaboration with Mexico City’s Terremoto in honor of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.

Panel discussion with Fabián Cereijido, Jesse Lerner, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, and Angela Vergara, moderated by Jessica Ceballos y Campbell to celebrate the book launch of How To Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney

Reception, Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion with Presentations, and Book Launch with Annie Chu, Joe Day, Tom Gunning, Julia Koerner, Jimenez Lai, Priscilla Fraser, and Stephen Phillips

Routine Pleasures was an exhibition at the Schindler House this past summer that brought together artists working in a variety of media to explore “the termite tendency,” a concept introduced by artist and film critic Manny Farber (1917–2008) in his 1962 essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art.” Whereas the original essay applied these labels to the work of filmmakers, exhibition organizer Michael Ned Holte found manifold parallels in contemporary art.

This online publication documents an exhibition-oriented initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler’s domestic experiment.

This online publication documents an exhibition-oriented initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler’s domestic experiment.

In conjunction with the A Vast Furniture exhibition on view at the Schindler House, artist Kim Stringfellow presented a lecture on historical and contemporary instances of homesteading in the California desert, from her Jackrabbit Homesteads project examining the relics of the Small Tract Act of 1938 to the community behind current placemaking efforts in the Mojave Desert.

A book launch and lecture for Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture with author Justin McGuirk.

Book release for Ickles, Etc. by Mark von Schlegell, featuring artwork by Louise Lawler.

The catalog launch event featured fresh-off-the-press catalogs and a discussion with Sylvia Lavin, author and UC Irvine professor Edward Dimendberg, Deputy Director of the Getty Research Institute, Andrew Perchuk, and art historian Alex Kitnick.

Martino Stierli presented his book Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2013). Presentation of the book was followed by a panel discussion and signing.

Two Cabins by JB is a project-based publication that documented and analyzed a recent body of work by critically acclaimed filmmaker James Benning, edited by Julie Ault.

In celebration of its 10 year anniversary, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture has published an updated guide to famed architect Rudolph Schindler’s Los Angeles, entitled Schindler By MAK.