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04.01.2013Everything Loose Will Land
is an exhibition exploring the cross-pollination that took place between architects and artists in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

03.20.2013Smooth Matter
Bernhard Sommer and Neil M. Denari

02.25.2013MAK Center Artists and Architects-in-Residence Exhibition
Steffi Alte and Eva Seiler, Markus Krottendorfer, Anton Savov, and Lucie Stahl present the results of their six-month residency at the Mackey Apartments

01.30.2013Plan your visit
Plan your visit is an exhibition exploring the complex interactions of tourism, tourist destinations and travelers.

10.24.2012Double Crossings
Hans Schabus and The Center for Land Use Interpretation

09.10.2012ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: Common Ground
Artists + Institutions: Common Ground is a public program offering an intellectual environment to explore the current state of Los Angeles contemporary artists and artist-run initiatives, graduate art school programs, and contemporary art museums, as well as educational focused public programming.

08.29.2012Material and Culture
Group XXXIV of MAK Center residents present the results of their six-month scholarship stay at the Mackey Apartments.

08.17.2012Rehearsal/Recoding
A performance by Ann Trondson

04.30.2012Bend a Bow
In order to expand the cultural exchange at the core of the residency program, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and the MAK Center have initiated a new, biannual exhibition series, Garage Exchange Vienna – Los Angeles, which invites Austrian and Vienna-based alumni residents to collaborate with L.A. artists and architects of their choosing at the Garage Top at the Mackey Apartments.

04.16.2012Out Spoken: Lectures from the SCI-Arc Media Archive
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has invited noted architects and scholars to mine the rich history of public presentations hosted by the Southern California Institute of Architecture

03.12.2012Flowers for Pauline
Sogetsu Los Angeles, School of Ikebana (Japanese Flower Arranging) presents an event at the MAK Center

02.22.2012Final Projects: Group XXXIII
Christoph Eppacher, Shima Roshanzamir, Morteza Farhadian Dehkordi, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, and Johann Lurf present the results of their six-month scholarship stay at the Mackey Apartments.

08.29.2011Final Projects: Group XXXII
Peter Fritzenwallner, Jae Rhim Lee, the team of Gregor Holzinger/Florian Schafschetzy/Eva Sommeregger, and Borjana Ventzislavova present the results of their six-month residency

08.01.2011Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
The MAK Center celebrates writer and historian Esther McCoy, the pre-eminent voice of 20th century California architecture.

05.23.2011"Light Pavilion" by Lebbeus Woods and Christoph a. Kumpusch
An exhibition at the Mackey Garage Top of drawings & photographs of the "Light Pavilion," currently under construction in Chengdu, China.

04.19.201191 92 93
"91 92 93" is an exhibition that revisits and reworks aesthetic paradigms created by key projects from the early 1990s. Andrea Fraser, Lincoln Tobier, and Simon Leung will present new installations and performances based on seminal earlier pieces.

02.28.2011Final Projects: Group XXXI
Patrycja German, Julia Koerner & Adam Vukmanov, Dennis Loesch, and Ivan Niedermair present the results of their six-month residency.

02.14.2011Schindler Lab, Round One
Schindler Lab pairs a local emerging artist and architect to build complementary installations in R.M. Schindler's Kings Road House.

11.09.2010MAK Center Welcomes 31st Group of Artists and Architects in Residence
Ivan Niedermair, Julia Koerner and Adam Vukmanov, Dennis Loesch, and Patrycja German

10.10.2010MAK Architecture Tour 2010
To celebrate Julius Shulman's influential work, MAK Tour 2010 will feature modern residences shot over the course of his career, and give tour-goers the rare opportunity to experience the interiors of some of Los Angeles's most significant modern homes.

09.10.2010Final Projects: Group XXX
The Final Projects presentation of the 30th group of MAK Center Artists and Architects-in-Residence: Zameer Basrai, Felix Burrichter/Sarah Ortmeyer, Mandla Reuter, and Markus Zeber

06.01.2010Fractional Systems. Garage Project II
The American domestic garage is a relatively neglected phenomenon whose hinged doors regularly conceal important belongings, activities, and rituals that don’t appear in public. Throughout the years, the Mackey Apartments and Garages have been used as a creative laboratory for artists and architects.

03.01.2010Final Projects: Group XXIX
Approaching the end of a six-month residency, the current group of Artists and Architects in Residence at the R.M. Schindler-designed Pearl S. Mackey Apartments, will present a Final Projects exhibition.

12.02.2009How Many Billboards? Art In Stead
This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles from February through March 2010.

11.11.2009Kaucyila Brooke, Vitrinen in Arbeit
Book Launch and Conversation with Virginia Heckert

10.05.2009Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism
With "Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism," the MAK Center for Art & Architecture presents the absorbing work of this passionate intellectual in an exhibition guest curated by architectural critic and theorist, Nader Vossoughian.

10.04.2009Architecture Tour: Focus Silverlake/Los Feliz Mid-Century Modernism
This tour will feature seven residences, dating from 1926 through 1964, by seminal architects Rudolf Schindler, Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris and Craig Ellwood.

09.03.2009MAK Center Presents “Final Projects” Exhibition For Group XXVIII of International Residents
With work by Bernhard Wolf, Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitentuis, Bara, and Rainer Prohaska

06.30.2009Pages presents "Satellite Geography: as long as it is aiming at the sky"
A conversation with UFI Fellows Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi

06.25.2009"Trends of Mobility in Beijing"
Skype conversation with MAK Center Resident and International Experts is part of global event, 80+1: A Journey Around the World

06.24.2009Urban Projects Lecture: "On the Shadows of Cities"
Gregor Eichinger, architect and designer Vienna/Zurich, discusses our new “e-nomadic” lifestyle and the increasing need for shelters outside the urban stream.

06.20.2009Fritz Haeg Unfurls 140-Foot Book in Happening-Style Celebration at the MAK Center
"The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive" Book Release Party Features Sound, Dance, Garden, Food, Knitting Artists and More

05.15.2009Herbert Lachmayer Probes “Creative Decadence and Pornosophic Reflections” in June 3 Talk
Austrian Professor Explores L.A./Vienna Cultural Connections

05.07.2009Pages Presents "The Isle" at the MAK Center
Exhibition Explores Paradoxes of Iranian Luxury Island

04.27.2009MAK Center Welcomes 28th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Rainer Prohaska, Bara, Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis, Anna Kovacs and Bernhard Wolf

03.24.2009The MAK Urban Future Initiative (UFI) Public Forum Series Presents: Los Angeles + Lima: Probing the Urban Desert
A conversation between UFI Fellow Alexia Leon and Christian Stayner

03.11.2009The HaudenschildGarage Presents: The Last Book: This Ain't Your Grandson's Kindle
The Last Book Performance: Sunday April 26, 4pm – 7 pm at the MAK Center, The Schindler House, Los Angeles

02.20.2009MAK Center Presents “Final Projects” Exhibition For Group XXVII of International Residents
With work by Simon Fujiwara, Hanakam & Schuller, Alan Cicmak and Schinegger/Rutzinger

02.10.2009Andrea Fraser, Simon Leung and Lincoln Tobier In Panel Discussion
“Reframing Critical Practices of New York Artists in the Early Nineties”

01.21.2009MAK Center Presents Heterotopias: Themed Suburbs in Shanghai and Los Angeles
Featuring Xiangning Li, UFI Fellow

12.12.2008Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Katie Grinnan, Ismail Farouk, Dorit Margreiter
MAK Center Opens 3rd Segment of 3-Part Exhibition With Featured Artist Dorit Margreiter

12.02.2008Jennifer Steinkamp Installation “Dervish” Anchors U.S. Presentation at Cairo Biennale
Programming includes experimental animation screening, website & blog, and artist/curator roundtable

10.30.2008MAK Center Welcomes 27th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Simon Fujiwara, Hanakam & Schuller, Alan Cicmak and Schinegger/Rutzinger

10.15.2008Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Katie Grinnan, Ismail Farouk, Dorit Margreiter
MAK Center Opens 2nd Segment of 3-Part Exhibition With Featured Artist Ismail Farouk

08.18.2008Locus Remix. Three Contemporary Positions: Katie Grinnan, Ismail Farouk, Dorit Margreiter
MAK Center Opens 1st Segment of 3-Part Exhibition With Featured Artist Katie Grinnan

08.10.2008MAK Center Presents PanAmerican Urbanism: From Caracas to East Los Angeles
Featuring Efren Santana, UFI Fellow and James Rojas, Co-Founder of Latino Urban Forum

07.30.2008MAK Center Presents Final Projects: Group XXVI
With work by Raimund Pleschberger, Paul Dallas, Manuela Mark, Eldine Heep, Oona Peyrer-Heimstätt and Paul Peyrer-Heimstätt

07.10.2008MAK Center Partners with Hammer Museum for John Lautner Architecture Tours
Tours Provide a Rare Opportunity to Experience Lautner's Stunning Residential Works

07.07.2008Free Afternoon Program Highlights Mid-City Works by Rudolph Schindler and Gregory Ain
Tours, Talk to Focus on Mackey Apartments and Dunsmuir Flats

06.04.2008MAK Center Announces Stewardship of Third Schindler Residence
Laurel Canyon Fitzpatrick-Leland House Donated to Non-Profit

05.14.2008MAK Center Welcomes 26th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Raimund Pleschberger, Manuela Mark, J. Paul Dallas, Paul Peyrer-Heimstatt, Oona Peyrer-Heimstatt and Eldine Heep

05.14.2008MAK Center Welcomes 26th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Raimund Pleschberger, Manuela Mark, J. Paul Dallas, Paul Peyrer-Heimstatt, Oona Peyrer-Heimstatt and Eldine Heep

04.11.2008Conversation at the Schindler House
Heinz Emigholz, Thom Andersen and Judith Sheine

03.06.2008Final Projects: Ah CA va bien
With work by Sabine Muller/Andreas Quednau, Bernard Eder/Theresa Krenn, Johann Neumeister and Hank Schmidt in der Beek

12.05.2007MAK Center Launches On-Line Archive For Artists and Architects in Residence Program
Website Chronicles International Exchange Program

11.10.2007Victor Burgin's The Little House
Conceptual Artist Merges Architecture and Literature in Audio Work

11.10.2007MAK Day 2007
Free Public Day Features Panels on Victor Burgin’s The Little House and New Translations of Noted 19th-Century Theorist, Gottfried Semper

10.06.2007MAK Architecture Tour 2007
Focusing On A. Quincy Jones

10.06.2007MAK Center Welcomes 25th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Sabine Muller/Andreas Quednau, Bernard Eder/Theresa Krenn, Johann Neumeister and Hank Schmidt in der Beek

09.06.2007MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Present "The Mystery of Life"
With work by Barbara Wolff, Katharina Stoever, Marc J. Cohen, Christina Linortner, Gerhard Treml and Zenita Komad

05.17.2007Arnulf Rainer. Hyper-Graphics
A Comprehensive Exhibition of the Acclaimed Artist's Graphic Works

04.21.2007Continuity and Revolution: A South Los Angeles Neighborhood and the Architecture of R.M. Schindler
Historian Allison Rose Jefferson Lectures on Schindler’s Bethlehem Baptist Church

04.15.2007Poetry Reading
Frances Stark, Bruce Hainley and Jeremy Sigler Read From Their Recent Work

04.09.2007MAK Center Welcomes 24th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Barbara Wolff, Katharina Stoever, Marc J. Cohen, Christina Linortner, Gerhard Treml and Zenita Komad

03.11.2007MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Present "Exquisite Corpse"
With work by Alexander Dworschak and Anke Freimund, Nine Budde, Julien Diehn and SPAN

02.10.2007Synthetic Ecologies
Panel Considers Crossbreeding of Architecture & Science

10.13.2006The Gen[H]ome Project
Modernist Landmark Transformed into Genetics Lab by Artists, Architects

10.01.2006MAK Architecture Tour 2006
Tour Samples L.A. Modernism with Houses by Irving Gill, Frank Llloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler,

08.18.2006MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Present "Final Projects" at the Schindler House
With work by Alfredo Barsuglia, Wulf Walter Böttger, Andreas Fogarasi and Sonja Vordermaier

06.08.2006"Vertical Garden' Offers Innovative Ideas for Landmark Schindler House
MAK Center & SCI-Arc Present Groundbreaking Competition & Exhibit

05.11.2006MAK Center Celebrates Mackey Apartments’ Re-opening
Art & Architecture Luminaries Join Republic of Austria to Fête Renovation of 1939 R. M. Schindler Complex

04.10.2006MAK Center Welcomes 22nd Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Alfredo Barsuglia, Wulf Walter Böttger, Andreas Fogarasi, and Sonja Vordermaier

02.23.2006MAK Center Residents Present Love After the Cold War in an Open House of a (Re) Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic
Final Projects Weekend Exhibition Shows Works Incorporating Hollywood, Real Estate, Car Culture, Heidi Fleiss and Guest Artists

01.04.2006Symmetry
L.A. Artists Probe Principles of Balance and Structure

11.01.2005MAK Center Welcomes 21st Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
David Emmer/Benjamin Haupt/Robert Huebser, Elena Kovylina, Sonia Leimer, and David Moises

09.07.2005‘glass, concrete and stone, it’s just a house not a home’
MAK Center Residents Present Final Projects In Mackey Apartments Exhibition

09.06.2005MAK Center Announces Dynamic Programs for Fall Season
MAK Day and an October Architecture Tour celebrate recent publication of Schindler By MAK

08.01.2005MAK Center Welcomes 20th Group of International Artists and Architects in Residence
Songül Boyraz, Christoph Kaltenbrunner (kabru), Hans Schabus and Milica Topalovic/Bas Princen

06.02.2005Schindler by MAK
An exciting new guide to Rudolph Schindler’s architecture in Los Angeles

04.01.2005Isaac Julien: True North
True North Exhibition Marks Artist’s First Solo Show in Los Angeles

03.01.2005Günther Domenig: Structures That Fit My Nature
MAK Center Exhibition Focuses on Key Works by Austrian Architect

10.12.2004Amir Zaki: Spring Through Winter & Jesse Weber: Hitch
Architectural photography by Amir Zaki and Outdoor Project Space by Jesse Weber

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