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Barbara Bestor & Roy Choi, Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample, Amanda Aman, and Princeton SoA to host featured online events today, tomorrow and Friday

2020-05-06T13:10:00-04:00

The remainder of this week's featured online events, highlighted in Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include Barbara Bestor and celebrity chef Roy Choi in discussion as part of Woodbury's end of year celebration; Amanda Aman shares her travel research from the Arctic Circle; Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS will lecture and offer a Q&A; and Princeton SoA will be streaming their Arc 504 Final Review "In The Age Of Covid-19."

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LeBrun Grant Lecture - Architecture of the Arctic Circle Periphery with Amanda Aman
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Amanda Aman, AIA, LEED AP BD+C presents her travel research and will describe the architecture of the Arctic Circle and delineate how certain features can be a...

Mimi Zeiger combs SCI-Arc media archive to create lecture playlist highlighting feminist thought in design

2020-03-09T18:02:00-04:00

Los Angeles-based critic and curator Mimi Zeiger has developed Feminisms: 1974 to Now, a curated video playlist of lectures that have taken place at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) over the decades highlighting "feminist thought and dialogue" at the institution.

The playlist, dubbed a "Collection," is hosted on the newly-launched SCI-Arc Channel website, a dedicated online space that makes available videos created over the last 30 or so years from the school's lecture series, collected via the SCI-Arc Media Archive. Zeiger's Collection includes contributions from Design, Bitches, Penelope Spheeris, Dolores Hayden, Phyllis Birkby, Beatriz Colomina, Sheila da Brettaville, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Keller Easterling, Esther Choi, Izasjun Chinchilla, and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

The lectures focus on a variety of topics that stake a claim the for "feminist outlooks [that] shape our work and our world," Zeiger writes in an introduction for the collection. Ze...

Barbara Bestor on the Jamba Juice “Innovation Bar” she redesigned in Pasadena

2016-06-28T15:34:00-04:00

Usually, you go to these fast casual things and you're in and out in a minute...In all of the commercial projects that we do, the reason that we do them and the reason that we probably get hired to do them is that we are interested in this idea of making a joyous space for everyday activities... It's not so much about the brand name being reinforced everywhere as much as it is to provide this urban amenity living room.

Most people don't rave about the interior design in the average Jamba Juice. But Barbara Bestor and her practice might have changed that in the expanded Old Town Pasadena location they recently revamped. Bestor chats with KPCC's Alex Cohen in this 8-minute conversation about the new “Innovation Bar” concept store, in addition to her other projects around LA.

You can also listen to this previous Archinect Sessions episode featuring Barbara Bestor:

Archinect Sessions #5: Barbara Bestor, The Michael Graves School & Material Witness

2014-11-06T14:13:00-05:00

For this week's podcast, Paul and Amelia spoke with architect Barbara Bestor, of Bestor Architecture, about growing her firm and Los Angeles' design influence, prompted by one of her recently acquired projects, a renovation of Lautner's Silvertop house. Next up, something's rotten in the state of New Jersey: Donna and Ken join in to discuss the local-beefs surrounding the new Michael Graves School of Architecture, whose prioritization of hand-drawing is inciting criticism from the neighboring New Jersey Institute of Technology.

We also consider Julia Ingalls' Material Witness series, and how cinematography and set design can drive narrative (and architectural) themes. To conclude, we briefly touch on the recently revealed renderings of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts in Chicago, designed by MAD Architects.

Listen to episode five of the Archinect Sessions podcast, "Barbara Bestor, The Michael Graves School & Material Witness":

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Barbara Bestor: Blue Sky Curricula For the Next Century

2012-02-07T14:37:00-05:00

Architect and Woodbury School of Architecture professor Barbara Bestor presented an optimistic vision of architecture—one grounded in entrepreneurial practice and creating new opportunities—at the 2011 ACSA Administrators Conference: Old School/New School in November. (Co-chaired by Dean Norman Millar.)