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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 25, 2024 · 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.
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...
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.
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.
Jan 3, 1984 · If there is any architect whose career proved that idealism need not be at the expense of pragmatism, it was Raymond Hood, perhaps the 20th-century's greatest molder of skyscraper form.
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.
