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Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles. He is best known for his designs of the Tribune Tower, American Radiator Building, and Rockefeller Center.
Mar 29, 2020 · Published on March 29, 2020. Share. In a short but prodigious career Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) had an outsized influence on twentieth century architecture. Born...
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Raymond M. Hood was an American architect noted for his designs of skyscrapers in Chicago and New York City. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Hood gained national recognition in 1922 when the Neo-Gothic design submitted by John Mead Howells.
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Yet, as a freestanding skyscraper, designed through massing, with strong verticality, and standing as the central emblem of Rockefeller Center, the RCA Building is the crowning modernistic tower of Raymond Hood's career.
Mar 4, 2008 · NY Modern: Raymond Hood. Watch on. Topics: NYC History. Hood loved towers. In both his built work and visionary urbanism, he championed the tower as the ideal form for the skyscraper.
- March 4, 2008
His sophisticated, visionary, irreverent – and astonishingly timely - work deserves a reevaluation. Raymond Hood and the American Skyscraper brings together approximately 70 architectural drawings, photographs (historic and newly-commissioned), models and books.
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Raymond Hood and the American Skyscraper. 1 Introduction. 2 Early Life and Education. 3 Chicago Tribune Tower. 4 American Radiator Building. 5 Architecture of the Night.
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