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Raymond M. Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 who worked in the Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
 style.






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Raymond M. Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 who worked in the Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
 style. He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 72,958 at the United States Census, 2000....
, educated at Brown University
Brown University

Brown University is a private university university located in , United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and Colonial Colleges in the United States....
, MIT, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts

?cole des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the Rive Gauche in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6?me arrondissement, Paris....
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. At the latter institution he met John Mead Howells
John Mead Howells

John Mead Howells was an American architect. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the son of author William Dean Howells, he studied architecture at Harvard and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he met his future partners, I....
, with whom Hood later partnered. Hood frequently employed architectural sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan
Rene Paul Chambellan

Rene Paul Chambellan was an United States sculpture, born in Hoboken, New Jersey.Chambellan studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian in Paris and with Solon Borglum in New York City....
 both to create sculpture for his building and to make plasticine models of his projects.

Selected works

  • Tribune Tower
    Tribune Tower

    The Tribune Tower is a Gothic Revival architecture building located at 435 Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Tribune and Tribune Company....
    , Chicago
    Chicago

    Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
    , Illinois
    Illinois

    The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
      1924
  • American Radiator Building
    American Radiator Building

    The American Radiator Building is a 338 ft. tall building in New York City in the borough of Manhattan, located at 40 West 40th Street looking out onto Bryant Park....
    , also known as the American Standard Building, New York, New York 1924
  • New York Daily News Building
    Daily News Building

    The Daily News Building, also known as The News Building, was the home of the New York Daily News. It is known as the model for the headquarters of the fictional newspaper Daily Planet, the building where Superman works as journalist Clark Kent....
     (the model for Superman
    Superman

    Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
    's The Daily Planet
    Daily Planet

    The Daily Planet is a fictional broadsheet newspaper in the , appearing mostly in the stories of Superman. The Daily Planet is based in Metropolis and employs Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen; its Editor In Chief is Perry White....
    ), New York, New York 1929
  • Rockefeller Center
    Rockefeller Center

    Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commerce buildings covering between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue ....
    , New York, New York, where Hood was a senior architect on a large design team. 1933-37
  • McGraw-Hill Building
    330 West 42nd Street

    330 West 42nd Street is also known as the McGraw Hill Building. The original McGraw-Hill building on 42nd Street was completed in 1931, the same year as the completion of the Empire State Building....
    , New York, New York 1934
  • Masonic Temple
    Scranton Cultural Center

    The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple is a theatre and cultural center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Cultural Center's mission statement is "to rejuvenate a national architectural structure as a regional center for arts, education and community activities appealing to all ages." The Cultural Center hosts off Broadway performan...
    , Scranton, Pennsylvania
    Scranton, Pennsylvania

    Scranton is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and the largest principal city in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area....
     1930