Throughout its 100-year history, Los Angeles’s landmarked concrete, grid-like Schindler House has seen many life cycles and evolutions. The headquarters, since 1994, of the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) Center for Art and Architecture (an independent U.S. satellite of the MAK Museum in Vienna), the early Modern residence is hosting an expansive exhibition, on view through September 25, dedicated to its centenary. Curated by MAK Center director Jia Yi Gu, with Gary Riichirō Fox of the Getty Research Institute and architectural historian Sarah Hearne, “Schindler House: 100 Years in the Making” showcases historical materials such as archival drawings, alongside contemporary works by artists including Carmen Argote, Kathi Hofer, Fiona Connor, Julian Hoeber, and Peter Shire.
The Austrian émigré architect Rudolph Michael Schindler (R.M. Schindler) designed his single-story, geometric West Hollywood home and studio on Kings Road in 1922. Inspired by both Austrian Modernism and Japanese design, he constructed the indoor-outdoor scheme, featuring glass sliding doors, a flat roof, redwood ceilings, and concrete walls, as an experiment in communal living. Built for himself, his wife Pauline Gibling Schindler, and their friends Clyde and Marian Chace, its studios, rooms, and shared kitchen played host to the likes of architect Richard Neutra, composer John Cage, and painter Galka Scheyer in later eras.
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