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Forbes top 200 residential architects
Thank you Forbes for including Bestor Architecture in your top 200 list!
From Forbes: “Bestor Architecture is a mid-size Los Angeles firm known for designing animated contemporary homes that are imbued with color and a funky, retro sensibility. Founder Barbara Bestor clearly enjoys her work: her houses appear to hover in the air, peer over walls and step down hillsides—as in their Featured Project, an L.A. house that takes advantage of the view without obstructing sightlines from its historic uphill neighbor. The house was also designed to withstand fires, thanks to its concrete base, metal trusses and expendable fire-resistant roofing membrane. The pool could also serve as a handy water source in the event of a blaze.”
The local project visits silvertop
Thank you to The Local Project for visiting Silvertop! You can watch the video HERE
barbara on madame architect
Strange Beauty: Bestor Architecture's Barbara Bestor on Freedom, Playfulness, and a Feminist Form of Office Culture, Madame Architect talks to Barbara Bestor
Bestor Architecture is collaborating with the ICA LA
Bestor Architecture featured in the July/August issue of Architectural Digest
Bestor Architecture was selected to collaborate with the ICA LA on refreshing their public areas. Design is currently underway.
Report on the creative economy at the snap foundation
Barbara Bestor spoke at Otis College’s 2025 Report on the Creative Economy hosted at the Snap Foundation. Joint panelists included Jackson George, EVP/Head of Brand Creative of Disney+, Chris Down, Chief Design Officer of Mattel, and Dana Flowers, Senior Creative Lead, movies and Series, Amazon MGM Studios.
You can watch the talk HERE.
“Wright’s influence is obvious, but Jackson had his own distinct interpretation of organic modernism,” notes LA-based architect Barbara Bestor, who recently completed an exhaustive restoration and expansion of a phenomenal house originally authored by Jackson in 1953 and enlarged by the architect in phases over the following decades. “He had very specific ideas about how houses grow and evolve. Many of the ad hoc additions were improvised with materials that were less than ideal. When my client acquired the property, it was basically a modern ruin,” Bestor continues.
Visit the house HERE
bestor Architecture is part of the Case Study Adapt program
Read more on Architectural Digest and learn how to apply for the program.
Rethinking how LA builds in Architects newspaper
AN surveyed nine top Los Angeles architecture firms to gain insight into how they are thinking about the current moment and how they plan to move forward. Their responses, edited for clarity and conciseness, are below. LINK
Bestor Architecture joins the Northwest arkansas design excellence program
The Walton Family Foundation announced 45 design firms have joined its Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program, bringing the roster of selected architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning firms to 108. Firms include Bestor Architecture, Hood Design Studio, Future Firm, Howeler + Yoon, and SO-IL.
Bestor Architecture is collaborating with lauren halsey on the Summaeverythang community center
Bestor Architecture is designing a new community center in South LA. See more in the LA Times