Finding Aid for the Models of Case Study Houses 5 and 12, circa 1989 0000149

Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu


Title: Models of Whitney R. Smith Case Study Houses 5 and 12
Identifier/Call Number: 0000149
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 8.0 Linear feet (2 models)
Date: circa 1989
creator: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) .
creator: Smith, Whitney Rowland, 1911-2002

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Custodial History note

Gift of the Museum of Contemporary Art, circa 1990.

Preferred Citation note

Models of Whitney R. Smith Case Study Houses 5 and 12, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Biographical/Historical note

The models that comprise this collection were built for the exhibit “Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses” which showed for 5 months (October 1989 to February 1990) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibit was curated by Elizabeth Smith and entailed full-scale walk-through constructions of original Case Study houses which were presented together with models, drawings, photographs, and design objects.

Scope and Content note

This collection consists of two models of Case Study Houses 5 and 12, homes designed in 1945 and 1946, respectively, but never built by Whitney R. Smith.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Smith, Whitney Rowland, 1911-2002
Case Study House No. 12 (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Case Study House No. 5 (Los Angeles, Calif.)