The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation presented Modern Beyond Style and the Pursuit of Beauty, a program featuring architect Larry Booth and author Jay Pridmore.
The program centered on a new book chronicling Booth’s influential career and the founding of Booth Hansen. For more than fifty years, Booth’s work has helped shape modern architecture in Chicago and beyond—demonstrating that modern design need not reject tradition. As a member of the Chicago Seven, Booth challenged rigid modernism, showing how historical reference, proportion, and beauty could meaningfully inform contemporary architecture.
Author Jay Pridmore, a Lake Forest native and respected chronicler of Chicago’s architectural and cultural history, offered insight into Booth’s legacy and the broader pursuit of beauty in modern design—an approach that aligns closely with LFPF’s mission to value context, continuity, and thoughtful evolution.
