Barbara Bestor

Barbara Bestor
Residence Los Angeles, California
Education Harvard University
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Occupation Architect
Known for Beats Electronics, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea
Spouse(s) Tom Stern 2015; Adam Silverman (divorced)
Children 2

Barbara Bestor is an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. She is the principal of Bestor Architecture, founded in 1992.[1] Examples of her work include the Beats Electronics Headquarters in Culver City,[2] the Nasty Gal Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea in Los Angeles,[3] and the Toro Canyon House in Santa Barbara.[4] She teaches architecture at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. In 2015 she married director Tom Stern.[5]

Biography

Early life

Barbara Bestor grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father was an anthropologist and her mother was a college administrator.[1][6] She interned for Cambridge Seven Associates through college, with a study-abroad year at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, eventually graduating from Harvard University in 1987.[1][6][7] She then received a Master's degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles in 1992.[1][7][8]

Career

She began her architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1992.[1] In her early career, she renovated many private residences in the Los Angeles area.[1] She also designed the Actors' Gang theater in Hollywood with fellow architect Norman Millar.[1] In 2001, she taught architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[1] She returned to Los Angeles a year later, in 2002.[1] She has taught architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.[9]

She teaches at the Woodbury University School of Architecture in Burbank, California, where is the executive director of the Julius Shulman Institute.[7][10] She was the founding Chair of the Graduate program.[7][10] In 2014, with Catherine Gudis, Thomas Kracauer, and Shannon Starkey, she curated an exhibition about the environmental graphic designer Deborah Sussman at Woodbury.[11] She has been a TEDx speaker.[10]

She has designed private residences in Echo Park, Pacific Palisades, Mount Washington, Silverlake, Los Feliz, Topanga Canyon, and Santa Barbara.[1][9][12][13] She has also designed stores and restaurants in Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo.[1][9][14] In 2011, she was the recipient of the LA Restaurant Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for her design of the Pitfire Pizza in LA.[8] She was also nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for the same restaurant that year.[8] The Floating Bungalow house in Venice, CA was featured in MOCA’s 2013 survey of contemporary Los Angeles architecture.[15] In 2015, the Beats By Dre Headquarters was recognized with a National AIA Honor Award for Interior Architecture.[16]

Personal life

She is married to Tom Stern (director) and has two daughters from a previous marriage.[5]

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