T on March 13th, 2010

The MAK Center in Los Angeles consists of more than just Rudolf Schindler’s Kings Road House.  It also encompasses his Mackey Apartments (1939) and Fitzpatrick-Leland House (1936).  I’ve wanted to see them both, but tours are usually only offered on the first Friday of each month. However, the Mackey Apartments are home to the center’s [...]

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If the Dwell on Design Home Tour served to whet my appetite for some of the unique and wonderful homes in Los Angeles, then today’s MAK Architecture Tour certainly served up the main course.  Headquartered in R.M. Schindler’s famous Kings Road House, the MAK Center for Art + Architecture organized a great tour of 7 [...]

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T on January 10th, 2009

It’s always great to bike down the coast on a beautiful, sunny day – but it was even better today to have a architectural destination in mind.  After last week’s visit to the Schindler Kings Road House, I was itching to check out the Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach. I wasn’t surprised to learn [...]

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T on January 4th, 2009

With a visit today to Rudolph Schindler‘s Schindler-Chase house (1922), I feel like an important piece of the Los Angeles architecture puzzle has snapped into place for me, filling a space next to Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner.  (I still need to find some missing Neutra pieces, however!) Schindler was an Austrian who came [...]

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