Schindler House

Schindler’s Kings Road House still feels like an experiment you can walk through. Completed in 1922, it was the architect’s own home and studio: a four-foot modular “living-laboratory” built with early slab-tilt concrete and an indoor/outdoor plan that helped shape Southern California modernism.

The pleasure of visiting is in seeing those ideas at full scale, rather than as drawings in a book. Timed public visits move through the original domestic and working spaces, where the MAK Center for Art and Architecture now stages exhibitions. The house is not frozen as a monument; contemporary work sits inside the historic rooms, adding a second conversation to Schindler’s first one.

Since 1994 it has been the MAK Center’s public headquarters, with companion audio tours created by artists, architects and writers, plus an international Artists-and-Architects-in-Residence programme. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1971, it remains unusually alive: archive, prototype and working cultural site in one.