MAK Center’s 2024 Architecture Tour features four remarkable houses designed by R.M. Schindler and John Lautner in Studio City and Hollywood Hills.

The MAK Center’s 2013 tour featured architecture related to Everything Loose Will Land and other shows in the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

Katie Bachler, Sonia Brenner, and Maryam Hosseinzadeh coordinated an afternoon of activities which delved into the history of Olive Hill and its larger context in Los Angeles, across eras and through to what we experience today. The tour uncovered traces and stories from the past, with a group who walked the hill from the edges to the top, viewed oversize historic images of the hill, read lost letters, and explored the history of the olive in the Southern California landscape.

In conjunction with the exhibition Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design, the MAK Center opened the Lovell Beach House (R.M. Schindler, 1926) in Newport Beach for public tours on October 16, 2011 as a fundraiser

The MAK Center partnered with The John Lautner Foundation for a house tour on the occasion of John Lautner's 100th birthday.

The MAK Center presented its annual architecture tour on the 100th birthday of renowned architecture photographer Julius Shulman.

Featuring seven residences dating from 1926 through 1964, by seminal architects R.M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris and Craig Ellwood, this tour focused on the middle decades of the 20th century, during which California established its reputation as a beacon of advanced architecture with residential designs that embodied the famed indoor-outdoor modern lifestyle.

The 2006 fundraiser tour featured houses by Modernist masters including Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig. It concentrated on residencies around the Hollywood Hills.

As part of programming related to the publication of Schindler by MAK, the MAK Architecture Tour focused specifically on R.M. Schindler, and included an array of relevant houses.

A fundraising architecture tour featuring two houses designed for Philip Lovell: the Lovell Health House (Richard Neutra, 1929) and the Lovell Beach House (R.M. Schindler, 1926).

The annual fundraiser included a self-driving tour of Richard Neutra’s Van Cleef House (1942), R.M. Schindler’s Tischler House (1949-50) and Craig Ellwood’s Broughton House (1950).

A day-long, self-driven architecture tour featuring residences designed by architect R.M. Schindler.

A New City: The Architecture of Eric Owen Moss and the Urban Strategies of Samitaur Constructs for Culver City featured a day-long walking tour focused on Moss’s work at the Hayden Tract, Culver City.

A day-long self driven tour of residential spaces designed by Los Angeles’ most important Modernist architects with lectures throughout the day at the Schindler House.

A day long self-guided tour of homes and apartments reflecting the evolution of R.M. Schindler’s work over three decades.