Bestor Architecture

Bestor Architecture Bestor Architecture is a Los Angeles based modern architecture firm, founded in 1995 by architect Barbara Bestor.

The office is collaborative and produces design that navigates between popular culture, art, and architecture. Recent projects include custom houses, art environments, collaborative installations and graphics, and commercial spaces as well as the book, “Bohemian Modern; Living in Silverlake” (Harper Collins 2006).

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10/13/2026

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Photos by Rich Stapleton
Story by Elise Taylor

Thank you to Forbes for including Bestor Architecture in your top 200 residential architects (US) and best in state list...
10/05/2026

Thank you to Forbes for including Bestor Architecture in your top 200 residential architects (US) and best in state lists!

In today’s Financial Times, two houses by Bestor Architecture in the PalisadesRebuilding LA, the Eames WayThe design stu...
09/25/2026

In today’s Financial Times, two houses by Bestor Architecture in the Palisades

Rebuilding LA, the Eames Way
The design studio on the Eames House lot is now given over to a display of architectural models. They’re previews of the Case Study: Adapt programme, a new iteration of the initiative that helped birth the Eames House. Under its umbrella, 10 LA-based firms, including Bestor Architecture and Marmol Radziner, are working on homes for 16 families. All of them will be 3,000 square feet or less — in a fire-endangered area, bigger is not always better when it comes to new homes, especially when the lot sizes are half an acre or smaller.

Architect Barbara Bestor, who has earned renown for her playful riffs on SoCal modernist design, is working on two CSA projects, both with empty-nester families. One couple has opted to build a 3,000 sq ft home; around 25 per cent smaller in footprint than the previous structure. “A lot of people are downsizing; a rebuild to suit the last third of life,” notes Bestor. The other family has replaced their single dwelling with a series of three interconnected buildings, to better make use of indoor-outdoor living. Bestor loves the nod back to the original postwar programme. “It’s very much a modernist ethos, that Case Study house flow — the inside and the outside always connected.”
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Bestor Architecture is breaking ground on an affordable housing project in Block Island, Rhode Island. 8 two-story pref...
08/20/2026

Bestor Architecture is breaking ground on an affordable housing project in Block Island, Rhode Island. 8 two-story prefabricated duplexes are possible through the tenacious fundraising efforts of the Block Island Housing Board. Pro bono design by Bestor Architecture and taking it from here through construction is our former colleague and friend Thea Massouh of Flock Studio Flock Studio

BTS with the most fabulous team Thank you Architectural Digest for featuring Jeff & Emilie’s house! AD team📷 Douglas Fri...
07/14/2026

BTS with the most fabulous team
Thank you Architectural Digest for featuring Jeff & Emilie’s house!

AD team
📷 Douglas Friedman
Kit Sinclair

🛋️ Lisa Rowe

✏️ Mayer Rus
📝 Amy Astley Alison Levasseur Michael Scott Shome

🎥 Meg Sutton Grant Bell Estanislado Esparza Brandon Fuhr Josh Crowe Amanda Broll-Armstrong

BA team Barbara Bestor Bianca Bolfa corie yaguchi with collaborators Zeb and Crunk

And of course Jeff Goldblum Emilie Goldblum ❤️💙🧡💛

Our semi-seasonal, semi-regular dispatch from the studio is out now! We will be sharing news from the studio, some excit...
04/21/2026

Our semi-seasonal, semi-regular dispatch from the studio is out now! We will be sharing news from the studio, some exciting designs underway, and a few things we are excited about in 2026. You can read more via the link in our bio or sign up on bestorarchitecture.com

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TONIGHT! April 9, 6:30 pm at Helms BakerySymposium Sunday April 12, 1 pmThe Eaton Canyon and Palisades fires transform...
04/09/2026

TONIGHT!
April 9, 6:30 pm at Helms Bakery

Symposium Sunday April 12, 1 pm

The Eaton Canyon and Palisades fires transformed the lives of so many here in Los Angeles. One year later, the rebuilding effort is well underway, but it has not been easy. Insurance, permitting, infrastructure, and inflated costs have proven challenging. No simple solution has clearly manifested. Instead, a variety of real-world approaches have developed for bringing our communities back together.

Please join us as we take account of some of the best architectural projects permitted and being constructed in the city and county of Los Angeles. On exhibit are large-scale models, renderings, and plans. Engage in a conversation of varied building approaches alongside a discussion from our grass-roots leaders spearheading change within our city and county.

EXHIBITS:

Ameen Ayoub Design Studio AADS; Andy Kim; Bestor Architecture; Byben; Cal Poly LA Metro Students; Casey Hughes Architects; Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects; Filosa Vol Architects; Florencia Pita; Geoffrey von Oeyen Design; John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects; Marmol Radziner; Morphosis; M-Rad; Office of Mobile Design (OMD); Plant Prefab; Scott Prentice Architects; Sorensen Architects; SOTO; SPARCHS; Studio Antares A + E; Tighe Architecture; WTARCH; XTEN Architecture

SPEAKERS:

BARBARA BESTOR, JOY CHEN, ROSEANNE LANDAY, SAM LUBELL, LEO MARMOL, STEPHEN PHILLIPS, JENNIFER SIEGAL, AND STEVEN SOMERS

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