Door Surround

Raymond Hood was an American architect. The son of a prosperous box manufacturer in Rhode Island, he had a strict, religious upbringing. He was educated locally, taking a first degree at Brown University, Providence, RI, before proceeding in 1899 to the architecture school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. In 1901 he joined the office of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, where he absorbed from Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue a feeling for the Gothic tradition in American architecture, which was to be an important supplement to his grounding in Beaux-Arts Classicism. In 1904 he went to study in Paris, enrolling in the Atelier Duquesne at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He spent much of the

Door surround · Birmingham · 1928. Enamel on bronze. By Hood, Raymond. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.