The MAK Center for Art and Architecture hosted a very special event featuring two iconic Southern California architecture masterpieces: The Ennis House (1924) by Frank Lloyd Wright and the John Sowden House (1926) by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.

Photographer Janna Ireland, in collaboration with the Southland Institute, discussed intersections of photography, architecture, motherhood, race, domesticity, portraiture, class, and documentation in four bodies of work about Greater Los Angeles.

You are cordially invited to the first of a series of director’s dinners hosted by Yola Mezcal & The MAK Center at which Lykke Li will perform live under the jacaranda tree with food prepared by Ignacio Mattos of Estela and gifts from Sunday Goods.

During visits to Los Angeles, Sandra Peters became preoccupied with the work of architect R.M. Schindler: from installations that resemble portraits of some individual Schindler houses to a cube structure (Interface No. 1) responding to the bilateral-diagonal roof configuration of the How House (1925), Schindler’s work became the point of departure for the artist’s multifaceted confrontation with the form of the cube that is documented within this publication.

The MAK Center was pleased to host a book release and panel discussion featuring author Martino Stierli, author and UC Irvine professor Ed Dimendberg, USC associate professor Amy Murphy, art historian and UC Irvine professor Sally Stein, and architectural historian and Carleton University assistant professor Inderbir Riar.

Panel discussion with Sharon Johnston, founder and partner of Johnston Marklee; Marc Pally, curator, Art in the Public Realm; ​Heather Roberge, chair of UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design; Mark Sarkisian, partner with SOM; and José Luis Palacios, design director with SOM.​

Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, will moderate the panel.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is held its Fourth Annual MAK Games at the famous Sheats-Goldstein Residence in Beverly Hills, a landmark house designed by John Lautner, on Saturday, July 21. This late afternoon-into-evening party featured the semi-finals and final tournament matches, followed by a Pro-Am match, followed by a dance party in the incomparable “Club James” hidden below the court.

SEEfest 2018 payed homage to an exciting era of early 20th century and the abundance and excitement of artistic life in the territories then part of Austria-Hungary. Following a brief introduction on modernism and a clip from the Neutra documentary, the conversation with guest filmmakers explored connections between their work and architectural heritage of the two Austrian architects in Southern California, and what new perspective will these two upcoming films bring to the way we view the men who created it, and the larger legacy of the times they lived in.

With: Svetlana Kasalovic, professor of design and multimedia at Moorpark College; and Valentina Ganeva and PJ Letofsky, two filmmakers of upcoming documentary films about Austrian architects Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra. Moderated by Vera Mijojlic, SEEfest director.

Todd Gray in conversation with Anthea Hamilton

Rosalind Nashashibi in conversation with Mathias Poledna

The MAK Center invites you to attend the opening reception for the final projects of Group XLV with WASA (Guillermo Acosta, Alejandra Avalos, and Alan Rios), Baptist Penetticobra, and Flora Hauser.

Mohamed Bourouissa in conversation with Negar Azimi

Architecture for Homies was part of the ongoing housing research and design project The Machine is Broken!. Guillermo Acosta, Alejandra Avalos and Alan Ríos explored new ways of understanding and creating private space. For this event, the second of a series of three, they showcased several explorations on domesticity by hosting an Open Studio. Thinking of “home” as a state of mind instead of only a physical building, what are the elements that define “home” in 2018?