Raymond Hood is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Raymond Hood as American architect (1881–1934).
Raymond Hood was born at Pawtucket in 1881. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Brown University.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Tribune Tower. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Raymond Hood died in 1934, aged 53. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Tribune Tower
- Trained at Brown University
