Frankfurt Ordorica

Today’s iteration of Exhibition House reconsiders Ain’s career as a case study in how the mechanisms of surveillance, finance, real estate, and preservation shape the afterlife of socially engaged architecture. Located across two sites — Frankfurt Ordorica and Meier St., an arts space operating out of a Mar Vista Tract home — the works by Carlos Agredano, Jono Coles, and Harrison Kinnane Smith revive and reproduce Ain’s commitment to a political social art and illuminate how debates surrounding housing and development in the 1950s remain unresolved today.

Carlos Agredano (b. 1998 in Los Angeles, CA) lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City. He received his MFA from UCLA in 2023 and is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a grant for artists to pursue independent projects.