Booth/Hansen

Laurence Booth was born in Chicago and received his bachelor of arts degree from Stanford University in 1958. After attending Harvard University in 1958 and 1959, he went to the Massachussets Institute of Technology, where in 1960 he received his bachelor of architecture degree. In 1966, he joined a partnership with James Nagle and John Hartray and they established Booth, Nagle and Hartray. In 1979, left the firm and a year later he co-founded Booth/Hansen with architect Paul Hansen.

In 1981, Booth/Hansen and Associates designed and created the House of Light, 1828 North Orleans Street, Chicago. This House of Light was typical of the upscale gentrification that occurred in some Chicago neighborhoods during the 1980s. Intended to express an urbane form of townhouse consumerism, set off from the conspicuous consumption in the suburbs by its assertion of good taste and elevated sensibility, this house and the more modest three-flat on North Mohawk Street were part of a recolonizing of the downtown area.

Booth/Hansen also designed the Chicago Historical Society, the old St. Patrick’s Church Hall in Chicago, John A. Walsh Elementary School, Roosevelt University, East Water Place and Cleveland Court, a group of townhomes in Chicago. Booth/Hansen received an honor award, given by the Architectural Institute of America, for the design of the Republic Window & Doors, Inc. Building.

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