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.