Raymond (Mathewson) Hood

Mr. Hood attended Brown University for a time, and was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1903. He also received a diploma from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1911. His design submitted in association with John Mead Howells won first place in the Chicago Tribune Competition, and the building subsequently erected was his first major commission. He became well known for his unconventional treatment of the modern skyscraper.
His firm of Hood & Fouilhoux executed the Daily News and McGraw-Hill Buildings and collaborated on the buildings of Rockefeller City in New York. He was responsible for much of the work of the Commission of Architects for the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago and designed the Electrical Building. Mr. Hood was president of the Architectural League of New York from 1929 to 1931 and received its Medal of Honor in 1926. He was a member of the international jury for the Memorial to Columbus at Santo Domingo in 1929, a trustee of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York, a member of the Groupe Americain des Architectes Diplomes, and a Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.