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1 Biography

Raymond Hood ( March_29, 1881 - August_14, 1934) was an early-mid twentieth century architect who worked in the Art Deco style. He was educated at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Hood frequently employed the services of architectural sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan to create both sculpture for his building and to make plaster models of his projects.

2 Selected Works

News Building, NYC, rendering by Hugh Ferriss

• Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois 1924
• American Radiator Company Building, also known as the American Standard Building , New York, New York 1924
• New York Daily News Building (the model for Superman's Daily PlanetDaily Planet fictional newspaper In the Superman comics, television series and movies, the Daily Planet is a fictional newspaper of Metropolis that employs Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen. Its chief editor is Perry White. In current comic book cont), New York, New York 1929
• Rockefeller CenterPaul Manship's 1934 statue of Prometheus on the Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st street in New York. It's located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, straddling both Fifth, New York, New York, where Hood was a senior architect on a large design team. 1933-37
• McGraw-HillMcGraw-Hill is a corporation dealing with education, financial services, information services, and media services. The name McGraw-Hill had no role in predicting the 1996 marriage of 2 country singers with the same last names, but there was a marriage in Building, New York, New York 1934

3 Images

4 Sources

Raymond Hood, Architect - Form Through Function in the American Skyscraper, Walter H Kilhan, Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc, NY, NY 1973

Architectural Sculpture of America unpublished manuscript, Einar Einarsson Kvaran

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