Architecture of the Night
Architecture of the Night, brochure
General Electric Company, Schenectady,
1930
11" × 8¼"
© Centre Canadien d’Architecture,
Montréal
Hood had helped to introduce a new age of color and light in American architecture, a development greatly welcomed by the electrical industry and lighting companies.
In 1930 he published a booklet called Architecture of the Night for General Electric: “The possibilities of night illumination have barely been touched,” he declared, as he predicted a new monumental art form. “There lies in the future a development even more fantastic than anything that has ever been accomplished on a stage.”