Design and Architecture
Schindler-s Neighbor and Chairs for the Future
The Schindler House in West Hollywood is a landmark of early Modernism and a much-loved venue for the art and architecture crowd. Now, the site next door is to be turned into condos. The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, which currently uses the Schindler House, is so worried that it has sent an SOS to the press, and has invited architects from around the world to submit alternative visions. What's going on? Frances Anderton speaks with the Center's director, and the developer and the architect of the new condos. She also speaks with the associate editor of Metropolis magazine about a furniture festival in New York that features chairs for the future.
By Frances Anderton • • 30m ListenKristi Cameron is associate editor of Metropolis magazine and editor of the ICFF Annual Directory
Kimberli Meyer is director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood.
Developer of the site next door to the Schindler House, Richard Loring is the managing director of Kings Road Gardens LLC, and president of Archetype, a building construction company.
Lorcan O-Herlihy is the architect for the scheme for the site south of the Schindler House.
Peter Noever is director of MAK Vienna, the Museum of Applied Art.