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.
MAK Center Architecture Tour Spring 2025
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to invite you to the MAK Center Architecture Tour Spring 2025, on Saturday, May 17, 2025. Our annual fundraising tour features two remarkable houses by R.M. Schindler and outstanding designs by Gregory Ain and John Lautner in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
This year’s selected residences span from 1925 to 1964 and spotlight the innovative techniques architects used to navigate the steep, hillside terrain and capture the dramatic views of the Silver Lake neighborhood. From an arching concrete roof to suspended clerestory windows to interlocking geometric volumes cut into the land, the architects of the houses explored new technologies of the era which continue to shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles today.
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.