FacultyBooth Hansen
Founded in 1980, Booth Hansen is a nationally recognized architecture, planning, and interiors firm. As a medium-sized firm, Booth Hansen provides project and design leadership with experienced principal architects who are engaged and attentive to the needs of every project no matter the size. Through commercial, cultural, and educational projects, as well as multi-family and single-family residences, their contribution to the built environment aims to capture the unique quality of each project. They address the functional needs of their clients while seeking a direct connection with the human spirit through architecture’s timeless, poetic language.
Booth Hansen believes in the power of collaboration among designers, clients, stakeholders, and consultants to produce successful results and products of enduring quality. Clarity in communication leads to an equally defined design process, in which many voices come together in a single vision. As architects, they are agents of that vision, carefully evolving it from concept to construction.
With every project, Booth Hansen looks to create beautiful places that people treasure.
AED Courses
Instructors
Larry Booth
Richard C. Halpern/Rise International Distinguished Architect in Residence; Clinical Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Design Principal / Director at Booth Hansen
Expertise: Architecture; Planning; Interior Design
Larry Booth founded Booth Hansen in 1980 with the belief that spirited, meaningful, and useful buildings can be realized with an organized and open creative process. As Design Principal, he leads the conceptual development of every project at the firm, always beginning with the conviction that each client, landscape, and building program is unique and demands knowledge and creativity to achieve the best results. In a career spanning over 60 years, Larry has been awarded many honors for his design work.
Larry is a Clinical Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Richard C. Halpern/Rise International Distinguished Architect in Residence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Illinois, and a lecturer at numerous prestigious colleges and universities.
Larry maintains a strong presence in Chicago’s cultural landscape, having served on the board of over a dozen cultural institutions, including Auditorium Theatre Council, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Goodman Theatre, and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Scott Cyphers
Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department; Design Principal at Booth Hansen
Expertise: Architecture; Planning; Interior Design
Scott Cyphers is a Design Principal at Booth Hansen and brings leadership to the development of a wide variety of project types. He provides creative solutions to higher education projects, contributing to new construction and renovations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University. His work with the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Botanic Garden highlights his sustainability and environmental efforts, with projects including an urban farm and a LEED Platinum-certified learning center. He demonstrates a clear focus, leading teams in the hospitality market with the design of several boutique hotels. Scott is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds a master's in architecture from MIT.
Scott has been teaching at Northwestern in the AE&D (Architectural Engineering & Design) program since the start of 2008.