Silvertop. Photograph by Tim Street-Porter.
The MAK Center Architecture Tour Spring 2025 is now sold out. Please email us at office [@] makcenter.org if you are interested in joining the waitlist.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to invite you to the MAK Center Architecture Tour Spring 2025, on Saturday, May 17, 2025. Our annual fundraising tour features two remarkable houses by R.M. Schindler and outstanding designs by Gregory Ain and John Lautner in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
This year’s selected residences span from 1925 to 1964 and spotlight the innovative techniques architects used to navigate the steep, hillside terrain and capture the dramatic views of the Silver Lake neighborhood. From an arching concrete roof to suspended clerestory windows to interlocking geometric volumes cut into the land, the architects of the houses explored new technologies of the era which continue to shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles today.
The tour features RM. Schindler’s How House (1925) and Yates Studio (1938-1947), Gregory Ain’s Orans House (1941), and John Lautner’s Reiner-Burchill House, commonly called Silvertop (1964). A ticketed reception will follow at the Cano House (2025), a contemporary residence designed by Diego Cano-Lasso.
Your ticket goes directly to advancing the MAK Center’s mission and public activation of three R.M. Schindler historic sites: Schindler House (1922) in West Hollywood, the Fitzpatrick-Leland House (1936), the Mackey Apartments (1939).
The MAK Center is the California satellite of the MAK—Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. Unique in its role as a constellation of historic architectural sites and contemporary exhibition spaces, the MAK Center develops local, national, and international projects in art, architecture, and their intersections and tangents.
Reception supported by Aplós, Catalina Apéro, and DADA ECHO PARK.
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
11am—5pm