Media Appearances

Film School Daze

NOTE: Bastien and Associates, Inc. is the architect of Chapman University's CHAPMAN STUDIOS featured in this article.

Film School Daze; The more aspiring filmmakers see college as their ticket to Hollywood, the more such specialized programs are proliferating around the country.

The Los Angeles Times
By ROBERT W. WELKOS
Nov 18, 2001

Irvine Architect Builds on a Sound Design

Note: Bastien and Associates, Inc. is located in Tustin, Calif. In 1999, the firm relocated from Irvine into its current Tustin office which incorporates the set of DreamWorks' "The Haunting."

From the Los Angeles Times/Business
November 7, 2000

When investors from Singapore to Spain contemplate building a movie studio, many of them seek the advice of Gary L. Bastien.

Architect's New Office Is 'Haunting'

The hallway shown has been installed in Bastien's office in Tustin, Calif.

From the Orange County Business Journal

Issue Date: 5/22/00

PETER BRENNAN

When the film "The Haunting" was released last year, it bombed. The haunted castle, which was supposed to be in England's Berkshires, didn't look authentic, complained one reviewer, who wrote, "Fright often depends on verisimilitude and that gets sacrificed right off the bat."

But now the set from that movie is the office of Tustin architect Gary Bastien and, according to Bastien, it's a hit.

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