Early Life and Education
Keith Raywood was born in New York City, New York, and lived between there and Miami Beach, Florida, throughout his childhood. As a teenager, he attended The Dwight School and studied painting at The Art Students League of New York with Issac Soyer. In 1975, while enrolled at Cornell University for painting, he switched to architecture at the end of his freshman year, and then left for London to study at The Architectural Association School of Architecture. While there, he joined the unit that was tutored by architects Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates. In the spring of 1978, he traveled to the Soviet Union with Rem Koolhaas, along with Koolhass' other students and colleagues. Raywood credits his time at The AA as most inspiring and influential in his work, and it would later greatly inform his process, aesthetic, and "architectural" style as a production designer.
In 1979, Raywood returned to Cornell's College of Architecture. While there, he formed the band Symbols, released two EPs, and regularly performed in New York City clubs like CBGB's, Tramps, Danceteria, and Max's Kansas City.
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