2009 Mak Center Architecture Tour | Eastside Modernity

2009 MAK Architecture Tour
Silverlake/Los Feliz Mid-Century Modernism
Sunday, October 4th from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The MAK Center Architecture Tour 2009 features the stunning landmark How House (R.M. Schindler, 1926). One of only 3 houses in which Schindler employed concrete, this early masterpiece has been beautifully restored and added to the Historic Registry. Six additional Mid-Century residences in Silverlake and Los Feliz round out the tour, dating from 1926 through 1964 and featuring the work of Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris and Craig Ellwood.

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SASSAS + MAK = sound. at the Schindler House

sound. at the Schindler House
Saturday, July 25
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS + STEVE RODEN

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The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) pairs these long time fans of each other's work for a first time ever joint concert at the Schindler House in West Hollywood.

Climax Golden Twins

Seattle based artists Climax Golden Twins are exacting archivists whose work draws upon old wind-up Victrolas, broken down guitars, field recordings, drones and electro-acoustic manipulations to produce an abstract assemblage of sounds.

Steve Roden

Steve Roden works with acoustic objects, old instruments, small electronics and field recordings to create "possible landscapes" focused on the quiet activity of listening. Roden will also be working with scores generated by Schindler's architectural drawings of the House, along with "a heavy dose of improvisation."

Pneumatic forms by Steve Roden

Architectural Ambiguity

The MAK Center Presents:
The Isle by Pages (Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi)

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 27, 7 - 9 pm

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A.
Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Please join the MAK Center for the opening reception of the new installation The Isle, by artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi. The installation will focus on the contemporary circumstances of Kish, an island located in the Persian Gulf. At the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the duo, partners who make up the collaborative team called Pages, will explore notions of "geopolitical indecisiveness" as it relates to this island. The Isle will be on view from May 28 through August 23, 2009.

The Isle consists of text, video, found documents, and architectural models that together narrate the "symptomatic" features of Kish. The central element of the exhibition is a steamship, recreated by means of a scale model and video recording. This boat, stranded along the southern coast of Kish in 1966, has become the island's quintessential attraction for visiting tourists as it is silhouetted against the setting sun each night. In another work, Tabatabai and Afrassiabi incorporate the February 1978 issue of Vogue Paris...

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