Join the MAK Center for the Mackey Apartments Block Party, an afternoon with friends and collaborators! The Mackey Apartments Block Party invites the general public to learn more about MAK Center’s Mid-City location through studio visits, self-guided tours, exhibition viewing and playlist listening.

The MAK Center invites you to attend the opening reception for our 2021 Garage Exchange: Antwerp with Benjamin Hirte and Nancy Lupo. The reception opens with a conversation between the artists, moderated by curator Aurora Tang.

In the 1970s, architectural historian and cultural theorist Charles Jencks began photographing the exaggerated houses that he encountered driving around Los Angeles, including West Hollywood. At a time when residential architecture in America was becoming increasingly standardized, he called attention to these fantasy houses that had been modified or built to exude personal character and variation.

Daydream Houses of Los Angeles, published by Rizzoli in 1978, includes Jencks’ snapshots of about 60 of these expressive and excessive houses, paired with witty captions and oftentimes an address, so readers could embark on their own house tours.

In this illustrated presentation, a collaboration with the Southland Institute, Aurora Tang will discuss her ongoing rephotography project revisiting Daydream Houses of Los Angeles, considering the informal photograph, the enthusiast, the tour, the changing appearance of our city’s residential neighborhoods, and the significance of Jencks’ book today, over 40 years after its release.