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Mak Center for Art and Architecture at the Pearl M. Mackey House

Pearl M. Mackey House
1137 South Cochran Avenue
CA 90019 Los Angeles, United States

 

Viewing every first Friday of the month 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

 

T : (+1-323) 651 1510
office@makcenter.org
www.maKcenter.org

 
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, established in 1994 in Los Angeles, is based today in three of the most important houses by the Austrian-American architect Rudolph M. Schindler.
The Mackey Apartments were purchased in 1995 by the Republic of Austria and established as the first permanent Artists-in-Residence center in the US and since then has been the vibrant base of the MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence program. In 2004 the Mackey Archive has been installed at the Mackey Apartments and is continuously being expanded and digitalized. The Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the Mackey Apartments is a six- month residency offered annually to two groups of two artists and two architects at a time. Each spring, a high-profile, international jury of artists, architects and theorists is convened in Vienna to select eight projects from international