Silent Disco, Venice Home and Garden Tour… catching up with California architect Barbara Bestor

A few weeks ago I did a brief write-up announcing the latest exhibition from renowned California architect and author Barbara Bestor. The design exhibition called Silent Disco opened to the public at Southern California Institute of Architecture(SCI-‐Arc). the focus on Silent  Disco’s installation was to support social and communal experiences.

“The Silent Disco for SCI Arc is a nightlife, student-oriented component of our larger project making architecture that enables people to interact and experience‘strange beauty’ in their environments.” explains Bestor.  

I caught up with Barbara and she shared her thoughts on the current exhibition, Silent Disco, and what can we expect from her next….

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Q).  What was the overall reception on the Silent Disco exhibit? Did the student interact as you had hoped?

Barbara Bestor 

A).  I think it was good. Tons of people at the opening. The third evening-Student thesis party night collado- people were dancing. Big thing for me was that the students were using it as a hang out space during the day in their last month of school… Napping, etc. It also has an interactive iPod hookup with built in speakers so you can make your own disco! The show got extended through the end of june too, and is around the corner from moca’s street art show so a fun thing to catch.

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Q). I hear your latest project “Floating Bungalow” will be shown at the Venice Garden and Home Tour. What was the inspiration behind the concept and design?

Barbara Bestor

 A). Floating bungalow uses a slightly twisted abstraction of the traditional walk street bungalow and raises it up in the air. The ground floor is a big open public part of the house with lots of distinct living areas and outdoor rooms, bedrooms are upstairs in an attic like configuration.

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Q). What’s next on your agenda? Hopefully you’ll get some down time for the Summer…

Barbara Bestor

A).  Up next- going to nyc for James Beard awards for Pitfire Pizza. Working a new house in the palisades and an interesting addition in Santa Monica. Looking at a couple of restaurant jobs. Hanging with my kids now that Woodbury University is out for summer ( graduation of my grad students was today!).

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Sounds like some good stuff coming up! I’ll check in with you on your future projects. Have a great summer and quality with your kids. Thank you again for the chat!

Barbara

My Pleasure!                                   photo by John Ellis

  

exterior photo by John Ellis /interior photos by Ye Rin Mok

Catch Barbara Bestor’s “Floating Bungalow” design this weekend May 7th @ Venice Home and Garden Tour

for more info http://www.venicegardentour.org/

www.bestorarchitecture.com/

Bohemian Modern meets Disco

If you are a lover of ultra-chic modern bohemian design, or perhaps stumbled upon fabulous party held at the flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with a raw restraint, brilliant colors, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, and lavish outdoor garden situated in the Silverlake neighborhood. then i’m sure you’ve heard of renowned modernist architecht, Barbara Bestor. she is the essense of California’s east side Silver Lake dwellings; bringing fourth her philosophy that embodies the raw, authentic and natural flow between indoors and outdoors.

This friday and the following dates Barbara Bestor presents Silent Disco, a SCIARC  GALLERY  EXHIBITION Architecture  students  are  the  “imagined”  client  for  this  temporary  disco installation. Providing  respite  from  the  institutional  production  of  architecture  with  a  lightly  hedonistic  program, Silent  Disco aims  to   support  social  and  communal  experiences. Silent  Disco April  1-‐  May  15,  2011

http://www.sciarc.edu/

960 E 3rd St
Los Angeles, California 90013
(213) 613-2200

Noteworthy : a short Q&A w/ Barbara Bestor on her exhibition to follow at a later date….

Friday, April 1, 7-‐9pm:  Opening  reception  in  the  SCI-‐Arc   Gallery  with  special  event, Disco Silencio

Friday,April 8, 7pm: Exhibition  discussion  with  Architect   Barbara  Bestor  and  SCI-‐Arc  Director Eric Owen  Moss

Friday,April 22, 7-‐9pm: Special event, Disco Callado, in the SCI-‐Arc  Gallery,

 

http://www.bestorarchitecture.com/