Case Study Houses

Elizabeth A. T. Smith is Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, based in New York. Previously, she was Executive Director, Curatorial Affairs, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. While at LA MOCA she curated the 1989 exhibition Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses . She has curated, published, and lectured widely on a variety of topics in contemporary art and architecture.

Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman , R. M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra , as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture series.