Erin Besler und Ian Besler sind die Gründer von Besler & Sons, LLC, einem in Los Angeles ansässigen Büro, das die Definition der Architektur durch aktive Teilnahme an Amateur Arbeiten, Bauberufen und Designsoftware erweitert. Sie arbeiten daran, neue Zielgruppen und Möglichkeiten für soziales Engagement zu schaffen.
Ihre Arbeiten wurden in Log, Pidgin, FutureAnterior, Project, San Rocco und Perspecta veröffentlicht. Ihre Projekte wurde international ausgestellt. Sie waren Finalisten für das Young Architects Program des MoMA PS1, Teilnehmer der Chicago Architecture Biennale und der Shenzhen und Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale für Architektur / Urbanismus.
Erin erwarb einen Bachelor of Arts von der Yale University und einen Master of Architecture with Distinction vom Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Sie ist Dozentin an der University of California Los Angeles in der Abteilung für Architektur und Städtebau, wo sie 2013-2014 Teaching Fellow war.
Ian erwarb einen Bachelor of Science in Journalismus vom College of Media der University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign und einen Master of Fine Arts am Media Design Practices Programm des ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, wo er 2014 Postgraduierter Design-Fellow der Milken Family Foundation war. Er ist sowohl Dozent für Design an der University of Southern California als auch an dem Santa Monica College.
The retail pop-up display “Trusses on Trucks” is featured at the LA Design Festival in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
Erin and Ian lead a workshop on fabricating and constructing “Los Angeles Building Party Hats,” hosted by Days in Los Feliz.
Erin is awarded the Founders Rome Prize in architecture from the American Academy in Rome for her fellowship proposal “The Problem with the Corner Problem.”
“Props” terrazzo home accessories and Los Angeles Building Party Hats are featured in the year-long programming series “Cities of Days” at Days in Los Feliz.
Erin and Ian present recent work as part of Architecture 101, a discussion series organized by THIS X THAT at the Standard in Los Angeles.
Erin and Ian present recent work as part of the conference Powerful IV, organized by the LA chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
The group exhibition “New California Craft,” curated by Jonathan Lo and including the retail collection of Besler & Sons “Props” terrazzo home accessories, opens as part of the Los Angeles Design Festival.
“Props” terrazzo home accessories get a mention in Azure Magazine in a feature about emerging trends in product design.
The Los Angeles Times says the exhibition “The Duck and the Document” mixes “the scholarly and the political in a particularly effective way” in a review by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.
The terrazzo piece “Parking Chock” is featured at the Los Angeles gallery of The Future Perfect in the West Hollywood Hills.
“Props” terrazzo home accessories are featured at INTRO/NY in Manhattan as part of the collection “In Support of Books”, curated by Norma Studio.
Besler & Sons “Props” home accessories are featured in The Culture Trip.
Toronto’s Globe and Mail says that Besler & Sons and other Los Angeles design studios have “succumbed to terrazzo’s charms.”
“Props” terrazzo home accessories are featured in The LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of the collection “In Support of Books,” curated by Norma Studio.
Besler & Sons “Props” home accessories are featured in Design Milk.
The MOCA Store in Los Angeles and THIS X THAT host a product launch party for the retail collection of Besler & Sons “Props” terrazzo home accessories.
“Props” terrazzo home accessories are available at the MOCA Store at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
“Props” terrazzo home accessories are featured on Dezeen.
Erin and Ian participate in a panel discussion as part of the group exhibition Come In! DTLA at the A+D Museum in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
The work “Table of Contents” is published in the UCLA AUD journal Pool.
Erin presents recent work as part of the CalPoly Metro Program lecture series at the Helms Design Center in Culver City.
The installation “3D Warehouse” opens as part of the group exhibition Come In! DTLA at the A+D Museum in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times says that “investigations of technology and digital culture” at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial “come in smartly measured doses” in a review by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne.
The installation “Amerimax Model Showroom” opens as part of the The Architectural League Prize group exhibition at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.
Erin leads the workshop “Architecture Itself” at the Syracuse University School of Architecture.
The installation “Low Fidelity” opens as part of the group exhibition The New Creativity: Man and Machines, curated by Sylvia Lavin at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Schindler House in Los Angeles.
The installation “Amerimax Motel Showroom” opens as part of the group exhibition One Night Stand at the Holiday Lodge Motel in Los Angeles.