Kathryn Smith's WRIGHT ON EXHIBIT has been selected by METROPOLIS magazine (New York) in the April 2017 issue as one of the "25 BOOKS TO READ THIS SPRING" in the field of architecture. This book was researched and written under a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is published by Princeton University Press. She will be speaking on this subject at a conference at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on September 14, 2017 during the major Wright retrospective.Kathryn Smith is an architectural historian, historic preservation consultant, and Frank Lloyd Wright authority. She was one of the first scholars to have complete access to the unpublished drawings and letters of Wright at the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at Taliesin West in Arizona. Her groundbreaking research into the history of Wright's Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan; 1913-23) and his Los Angeles buildings from 1919-1924 were the foundation for a new understanding of Wright's middle period. Under a fellowship from the Graham Foundation for the Arts, she completed FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, HOLLYHOCK HOUSE AND OLIVE HILL: PROJECTS AND BUILDINGS FOR ALINE BARNSDALL (1992), which Alice Friedman in the SAH Journal declared the "the definitive history, providing important new insights." Andrew Mead, in the ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, described the book as "Exemplary, meticulously researched, lucidly written." A portfolio of color images of Hollyhock House was commissioned for this Rizzoli book. Over a ten period, she was a guest of Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship at Wright's homes in Wisconsin and Arizona. With scholarly and personal knowledge, she wrote FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S TALIESIN AND TALIESIN WEST, fully illustrated in archival photographs and color images commissioned by Smith for her book. She has also published widely with Rizzoli International, including a career survey, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: AMERICAN MASTER. Parallel with her publishing, Smith acted as a historic preservation consultant for the Wright properties of Taliesin (Wisconsin), Florida Southern College, Graycliff (Buffalo), Barnsdall Park (Hollywood). In 2003, she was Scholar-in-Residence at Wright's Robie House (Chicago). In 2012-13, she served on the Committee to Preserve Taliesin West. Her expertise encompasses Wright's entire 70 year career and has expanded from architecture to also include his work in landscape design. Her singular article on Wright's waterfall buildings, which she originally gave as a lecture at the 50th anniversary of Fallingwater, was anthologized by Robert Carter in ON AND BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (Phaidon). She has been accorded several honors including the Wright Spirit Award for Professionals in 2001 for her contributions to the preservation of and insights into Wright's body of work. Her book, SCHINDLER HOUSE, has become a classic. David Soltesz wrote in the LIBRARY JOURNAL, that this book "... does more to promote an appreciation of this legendary abode than any prior publication." An essay on the innovative landscape designs of Wright, Schindler, and Neutra was published in PRIVATE LANDSCAPES.