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

The second annual MAK Games, a tennis tournament that benefits the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, was held at the Sheats/Goldstein house. Guests enjoyed cocktails, bar-b-que, music, and tours of the house while cheering on their favorite team.

A 2-day conference held at the MAK Center Schindler House, Neutra VDL House, and Hollyhock House, Los Angeles.

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

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS), in conjunction with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, presented sound. at the Schindler House 2014: Space as Raw Material with Woody Sullender, Odeya Nini and Carmina Escobar. Space as Raw Material embraced the intersections of divergent creative practices, including architecture and sound, performance and installation.

The public, political and cultural response to the AIDS crisis, as well as its manifestation in art production in three American cities: New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, was discussed in a panel including Nayland Blake, Liz Kotz and moderator Matias Viegener.

LACE, ONE Archives and the MAK Center presented a screening of recent video work by Doug Ischar alongside videos by Bruce and Norman Yonemoto from the 1980s. The program included Ischar’s brb (2007), and Alone With You (2011), recently part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s Garage Sale II (1980), and Vault (1984).

The curators of four exhibitions featuring the work of Tony Greene: Judie Bamber and Monica Majoli (Schindler House), David Evans Frantz (Made in LA/Hammer), Richard Hawkins and Catherine Opie (Whitney Biennial), and John Neff (Iceberg Projects) discussed the reemergence of the late artist’s work, its relevance today, and how it can be framed in a contemporary discourse. They also offered a contextualization of the artist’s work in the realm of his personal world.

Artist Alfredo Barsuglia joined MoMA curator Stephanie Weber and MAK Center Director Kimberli Meyer to discuss his project, Social Pool.

Andrea Fraser talks with Joe Day about his research on museums and prisons.

Sean Lally discussed his recent book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come (Lars Müller Publishers, 2013)—a speculation into an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment.

Arquitectura Contemporánea was a discussion that took a critical look at the representation of architecture and the changes in urban landscapes: specifically in terms of architectural guidebooks, and more generally with the interconnection between architecture and photography through time-based documentary and art works.

Sean Lally discussed his recent book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come (Lars Müller Publishers, 2013)—a speculation into an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment.

The workshops highlighted urban patterns and complemented them with political reflection in the form of comic drawings. Visitors were asked to come by the Mackey Apartments and talk about their mobility and/or migration experiences. Or, more simply, answer the question “How did you get here/there?”

Steven Holl gave a lecture in the courtyard of the Schindler House on the concept of ‘porosity’ in his urban projects..

Amina Cain read from her newly released book Creature, a collection of stories exploring the territories of pleasure/suffering as landscape/house, with characters who seem to share a single heartbeat.