Social Housing: Vienna—Los Angeles
MAK Center

Social Housing: Vienna—Los Angeles unfolds at the Schindler House, designed in 1922 by Austrian émigré architect R.M. Schindler as an experiment in cooperative living. Its construction coincided with the emergence of Red Vienna, when the city began developing the municipally supported housing system that would transform Vienna over the following century. These parallel experiments in collective life provide a historical frame for considering the sharply different trajectories the two cities have followed: Vienna’s sustained public investment in housing alongside the largely market-driven conditions that have shaped Los Angeles.