15 Facts About Barbara Bestor

Barbara Bestor was born on 1966 and is an American architect based in Los Angeles, California.

Barbara Bestor is the principal of Bestor Architecture, founded in 1992.

Barbara Bestor grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father was an anthropologist and her mother was a college administrator.

Barbara Bestor 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.

Barbara Bestor then received a master's degree in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles in 1992.

Barbara Bestor began her architectural practice in Los Angeles in 1992.

Barbara Bestor designed the Actors' Gang theater in Hollywood with fellow architect Norman Millar.

Barbara Bestor returned to Los Angeles a year later, in 2002.

Barbara Bestor has taught architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Barbara Bestor has taught at the Woodbury University School of Architecture in Burbank, California, where she is the executive director of the Julius Shulman Institute.

Barbara Bestor was the founding Chair of the Graduate program.

In 2017 the exhibition Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A Search for Living Architecture, designed by Barbara Bestor Architecture, opened at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Barbara Bestor has designed stores and restaurants in Los Angeles, New York City, and Tokyo.

Barbara Bestor was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for the same restaurant that year.

Since the opening of Blackbirds Barbara Bestor has explored a variety of housing solutions for Los Angeles, ultimately receiving second place in the city's Low Rise competition.