Schindler Lab
John Hill
19. marzo 2015
Thurman Grant, "Schindler Lab, Round One: Ghost in the Shell" (Photo: Courtesy of MAK Center)
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment."
When we interviewed Kimberli Meyer, Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, in our 2013 Insight feature on exhibiting architecture, she described the famous Schindler House as "a site of forward-thinking aesthetic, cultural, and political activity throughout the 1920s-50s." Meyer explained that the MAK Center's mission is "to continue the conversation initiated by Schindler by creating and supporting programming that explores the dynamic intersections of art, architecture, and culture." Some of this programming is collected in the excellent Schindler Lab, edited by Meyer, Anthony Carfello, and Sara Daleiden.
The standalone website features a history of the house by Susan Morgan, documentation of five projects (such as those by Thurman Grant and Andrea Lenardin Madden shown here) realized as part of the Schindler Lab series that started in 2011, a conversation and musings on working at the Schindler House, and a number of realized and unrealized proposals for installations at the venue (Open Source Architecture's installation at bottom is one example). The whole makes clear the quality of Schindler's design and how a piece of architecture can retain its significance in the right hands.
Andrea Lenardin Madden, "looking west, facing east" from "A Little Joy of a Bungalow" (Photo: Courtesy of MAK Center)
