biography
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Hood, Raymond M(athewson)
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| lived:
| (1881–1934)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1905. In 1922, with John Mead Howells (1868–1959), he won the competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower, designed with Gothic details. He became the leading designer of skyscrapers in North America in the following decade. Later works in New York City were designed in a modern, rationalist style, such as the Daily News Building (1929–30), the Rockefeller Center (1930–40), and the McGraw-Hill Building (1931). |
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