Upon invitation to return to Los Angeles and work with any local practitioner of his choosing, Vienna-based former MAK Center artist-in-residence Marko Lulić reached out to L.A.-based artist Sam Durant—since the 1990s the two have found a promising overlap in the way their practices have used historical reference as part of their long-term, contemporary political engagements.

Curated by Christian Witt-Dörring of MAK Vienna, the MAK Center presented this exhibition exploring the intellectual climate in Vienna at the time of R.M. Schindler’s architectural training, and highlighting the trajectory connecting 19th century Europe with 20th century West Hollywood.

An exhibition by the MAK Center’s Artists and Architects-in-Residence.

From the first house R.M. Schindler designed using a drafting machine to contemporary architects who design digital drawing devices instead of houses, The New Creativity: Man and Machines examined creative practices in relation to the social and technical complexes that support and constrain them.

In its seventh iteration, the MAK Center’s Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles exhibition series brought together a former MAK Center Resident and a Los Angeles-based practitioner to create an exhibition at the Mackey Apartments Garage Top.

With one sculpture and two sites, Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote used the floor plan of the Schindler House as an inspiration and guide to literalize the understanding of architectural space as delineated and distinguished from non-architected space.

During their residency at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, it occurred to artists and architects Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz, and Lukas Stopczynski, that if Adolf Loos’s original bar were to be squeezed in its width and height by a ratio of 0.65:1 it would fit perfectly into their backyard studio.

An exhibition by the MAK Center’s Artists and Architects-in-Residence.

Questions and forms of being alive, living, inhabitation, space, time and distance are entry points to Begin Again, Begin Again.

Groundswell presented a selection of their efforts as it engaged the ongoing conversation of how architecture can serve communities following a natural disaster.