Erin Besler와 Ian Besler는 아마추어 제작자, 건설 거래 및 디자인 소프트웨어와 적극적으로 협업하여 건축의 정의를 확장하는 로스 앤젤레스의 건축 스튜디오 Besler & Sons, LLC의 공동 창업자입니다. 본 스튜디오는 새로운 관객과 사회적 참여 기회를 창출하기 위해 노력합니다.
본 스튜디오의 작업은 전 세계에 걸쳐 Log, Pidgin, FutureAnterior, Project, San Rocco 및 Perspecta에 전시되었습니다. 또한 MoMA PS1의 MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program의 파이널리스트로 선정되었으며, 시카고 건축 비엔날레, 심천 및 홍콩 건축 도시 건축 비엔날레에 참여했습니다.
Erin은 예일 대학 (Yale University)에서 예술 학사 학위를 받았으며 남부 캘리포니아 건축 연구소 (SCI-Arc)에서 건축학 석사 프로그램을 수석으로 졸업했습니다. 캘리포니아 로스 앤젤레스 대학(UCLA) 건축 및 도시 디자인학과의 강사로 2013-2014년도 교수직을 맡았습니다.
Ian은 Urbana-Champaign의 일리노이 대학 언론 대학에서 저널리즘 학사를, Pasadena ArtCenter College의 Media Design Practices 프로그램에서 미술 석사 학위를 받았으며 2014 Milken Family Foundation 대학원 디자인 연구원으로 재직했습니다. 현재 남부 캘리포니아 대학(USC)과 Santa Monica College에서 인터렉션과 사용자 경험 디자인을 강의하고 있습니다.
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.