Please join us on Thursday, May 29th, 6:30-8:30 pm, for a reception, lecture, and Q+A discussion with Barbara Bestor.

In collaboration with the Helms Design District and the Cal Poly SLO/LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design

Helms Design Center        
8745 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232

Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.

Lecture is Free and Open to the Public with RSVP

Barbara Bestor, FAIA is the principal and founder of Bestor Architecture. Barbara’s award-winning studio is recognized for experimental architecture that engages the city through design, art, and urbanism. She believes that good design creates an engaged urban life by creating “strange beauty” that enhances everyday life experience.

The studio’s work reinterprets modernism for contemporary living and cultural activities. Projects include: Ashes & Diamonds Winery in Napa, LACMA’s Scandinavian Design and the US exhibit, Intelligentsia in Silverlake, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the new Summaeverthang Community Center in South LA, the restoration of Lautner, Schindler, and other iconic modern masterpieces, and new buildings at the historic Sunnylands compound in Rancho Mirage.

Barbara’s career is punctuated with inventive projects in a wide breadth of typologies. She has designed new ways of creating accessible urbanism in her “stealth density” Blackbirds housing, retail and restaurant flagships, dynamic workspaces for Beats By Dre and Snap, and pioneering arts projects that are deeply rooted in their communities and cultural context.

She received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, studied at the Architecture Association in London and received a MARCH at SCI-Arc. She is the author of Bohemian Modern, Living in Silver Lake.

See more of her work at bestorarchitecture.com

Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, FAIA, PhD, of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).

Photos: (Top) Blackbirds by Bestor Architecture; (Above, left to right): Barbara Bestor © Joshua White; Hilltop Residence © Bruce Damonte

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