The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles is a contemporary, experimental, multi-disciplinary center for art and architecture and is headquartered in three architectural landmarks by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler. Founded in 1994, the MAK Center is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization and the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. The core of the programming includes the internationally recognized MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, an annual residency program for emerging international artists and architects. The MAK Center works in cooperation with the Friends of the Schindler House (FoSH), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve and maintain Schindler's Kings Road house in West Hollywood.

 
 
 

Baroo
at the Schindler House

 

Join the MAK Center as a member and enter to win a prix fixe dinner at the Schindler House! Lauded as one of LA’s best restaurants by the New York Times, Eater, and the LA Times, Baroo is a modern Korean restaurant, known for fermentation and a free spirit.

Join as a Member (by March 31st) and win a prix fixe dinner with Baroo at the Schindler House!

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Researcher-in-Residence

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation are thrilled to announce the creation of a new, fully funded summer residency program based in Los Angeles. The residency program, titled Researcher-in-Residence, will provide a US-based architect, artist, and/or researcher dedicated space and time for innovative work that addresses pressing issues related to the built environment. The Researcher-in-Residence will receive a $5,000 stipend and a four-to-eight-week summer residency in the live/work space at MAK Center’s Study Center.

Applications for the inaugural residency will be accepted through March 8, 2024.

 

Applications Now Open!

Applications for the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Exhibitions and Engagement Intern are now open. The 10-week paid summer internship offers undergraduates and recent graduates an opportunity to work closely with MAK Center staff on upcoming 2024 exhibitions, residency and public programming.

Applications will be accepted through April 1st, 2024, with interviews beginning April 15th. For more information about eligibility and application instructions, see link below. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV or resume (PDF) here.

 
 

Exhibitions


 
 

Upcoming Events

 
 

Schindler House
Companion Tours

Listen to a series of interpretive audio tours by artists, architects, and writers. Visitors are invited to move, observe, and perceive the house through instructional exercises, fictional meanderings, and guided journeys.

 
 
 

SCHINDLER SITES

The MAK Center is a unique constellation of modern buildings designed by architect R.M. Schindler. It presents contemporary exhibitions and programs in the landmark Schindler House (1922) in West Hollywood, operates the international MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program and exhibition space at the Mackey Apartments (1939), and hosts research-based artistic and scholarly residencies at Fitzpatrick-Leland House (1936) in Los Angeles.


RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The MAK Center offers several residency programs. The Mackey Artist and Architects-in-Residency is a six-month residencies to international artists and architects, selected by an international jury through an annual competition. Residents live and work in the Mackey Apartments, and present projects in exhibitions at the end of their term in March and September. The Researcher-in-Residency program, in partnership with SOM Foundation, is a new, fully funded summer residency program providing US-based architect, artist, and/or researcher dedicated space and time at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House and present their research in a public program at the Schindler House.