Barbara Bestor Architecture: Silent Disco

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1, 7–9pm Discussion: Friday, April 8, 7pm in the SCI-Arc Gallery Architect Barbara Bestor and SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss discuss the exhibition. While SCI-Arc maintains its position as the parent company of architectural radicalism, it needs continual challenging and questioning from within– from accepted modes of study, program and representation, to actual structures proposed, to the cultural relationship between students and the outside world. Bestor’s proposal is a modest attempt to re-consider the ingredients and accessibility of architectural experience and to address how the culture engages with the world itself on behalf of our students. Barbara Bestor, principal of Barbara Bestor Architecture, is known for a wide range of commercial and residential projects recognized for their warm, modern materials and colorful airy interiors. Bestor's architecture practice has included award-winning commercial spaces such as Intelligentsia Coffee in Silverlake and experimental houses in Venice, Silverlake, Santa Barbara and New York City. She graduated with a master's in architecture from SCI-Arc in 1992, and also holds a degree in visual and environmental studies from Harvard. She is a former professor at both of those institutions as well as UCLA. Bestor's work has been exhibited in LA Project Space, the CCA Wattis Institute and the Whitney Biennial in Central Park, and it has been published in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Dwell, Elle, Brutus and Domino. She is currently the chair of the new Graduate School of Architecture at Woodbury University. Bestor is also the author of "Bohemian Modern, Living in Silverlake" (Harper Collins, 2006), dedicated to the informal and eccentric modernism found in Silverlake's architectural history. SCI-Arc Gallery