Fitzpatrick-Leland House
Residencies
One of the most important attitudes of the MAK Center program is that experimentation requires deep engagement and reflection, with the explicit purpose of supporting and investing in individuals at the cutting edge of their fields whose work will impact the cultural landscape at large. Residencies at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House offers emergent thinkers, designers, and researchers working across disciplines to engage with Los Angeles as a site of research and dialogue, in order to heighten their work to the next level of exploration.
SUMMER 2026
Researcher-in-Residence
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOM FOUNDATION
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the SOM Foundation welcomes applicants to the Researcher-in-Residence, a joint residency program based in Los Angeles to provide space and time for rigorous work that addresses pressing issues related to the built environment. Each year, a $5,000 fellowship and summer residency are awarded to an architect, artist, and/or researcher based in the US to conduct original research that contributes to the current topic.
The Researcher-in-Residence program is open to professionals researching or practicing in a discipline that relates to the built environment. Disciplines may include, but are not limited to architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, architectural history, sociology, writing, and/or visual art.
JUNE 2022 - DECEMBER 2022
Danish Designers in Residence
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DANISH ART FOUNDATION
The Designers-in-Residence program welcomes exceptional designers to live and work in Los Angeles. Situated in the quiet residence of the Fitzpatrick-Leland House, the residency program is particularly important in this respect because it presents young designers with the opportunity to develop new projects linked not only to Schindler’s experimental work but also to the histories and context of Los Angeles. Recipients of awards are encouraged to participate in the activities of the Schindler House, attend programs and events, and engage with larger art and design communities of Los Angeles.
FITZPATRICK-LELAND HOUSE
Each resident is given exceptional access to the three-level hillside house designed by R.M. Schindler.
HISTORY OF RESIDENCIES AT THE FITZ
From 2008-10 the Fitzpatrick-Leland House served as a base for the MAK Center’s Urban Future Initiative (UFI), a fellowship program in which cultural thinkers from diverse nations entered into dialogue about urban space with Los Angeles scholars and practitioners. The fellowship provided for two month residencies at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House to promote meaningful exchange between cultural thinkers and Los Angeles practitioners in order to explore the complexity of "the city" in relationship to the built environment, growth and migration, economics, politics, gender, and the natural environment. The fellowship’s mission was to cultivate visionary conceptions of the urban future. In 2022, in partnership with the Danish Art Foundation, the MAK Center hosted Chris Halstrøm and Pettersen-Hein as Designers-in-Residence.
Since then, the MAK Center has dedicated the house to small-scale events and the lodging of international cultural researchers visiting Los Angeles for artistic and scholarly pursuits.
