Laurence Booth's Architectural Adventure (original) (raw)

Architecture Fri Aug 29 2008

Laurence Booth of local firm, Booth Hansen, is featured in an article in this month's Chicago Magazine highlighting his ongoing career of applying his design method to whatever project may enter his door.

Among discussing his controversial project in Evanston or his high profile Joffrey Tower project downtown, the article asks the question, "why turn on your previously professed disliking of high-rise buildings?" Booth, soundly inline with sustainable environmental policy, expresses his concern at the way growth in this country has drained resources and increased consumption. He continues that the increased density that efficient uses resources spurred him into the high-rise market.

The article continues to explore his evolving career in the context of the scale of his projects. Status quo in architecture, the article states, is that residential architects work in anonymity and everyone else fights for commissions. However, Laurence Booth's path to the elite group of Chicago architects features his residential work as predominately as his later, larger projects.

The article also highlights a few of Booth's projects that have been unequivocal success, such as recently completed, 30 West Oak Street.