Whitney R. Smith (1977-2002) was a leader in post-World War II modernist architecture. Smith was among a group of Los Angeles architects and designers who participated in the "Case Study Houses" program of experimental modern houses designed and built primarily in Los Angeles from 1945 to 1966.

A Midcentury Home Keeps the History Alive
In Los Angeles’s Crestwood Hills enclave, the 1950 Kalmick House by A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith gets a sensitive...
An Architect’s Work to Preserve L.A.’s Modernist Crestwood Hills Enclave Starts With Her Own Home
In the 1940s, the Mutual Housing Association created California’s only successful postwar cooperative community.