This series delves into the myriad ways people enter the commercial real estate industry and what contributes to their success.
Victor Body-Lawson, principal of New York-based Body Lawson Associates, is a man of many talents. Preeminently an architect and designer as the head of the firm he founded in 1993, Body-Lawson is also a developer, an educator on the faculty of Columbia University, and a painter of abstract art whose many works adorn common spaces in the buildings he has designed.
A native of Nigeria, Body-Lawson came to the United States to pursue higher education, attending Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and studying architecture in graduate school at Columbia University. Enthusiastically advocating for collaborative design, arts integration and architectural education, Body-Lawson has largely specialized in affordable housing.