Background
George Everard Kidder Smith was born on October 1, 1913, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Princeton University
George Everard Kidder Smith was born on October 1, 1913, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
George Smith received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1935, and a Master of Fine Arts from Princeton's Graduate School of Architecture in 1938.
George Smith served in the U.S. Navy during World War II with special photographic duties. He worked as a self-employed architect. While in the navy he installed the "Power in the Pacific" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, for Captain Edward Steichen in 1945. George Smith produced a traveling exhibition, "The Work of Alvar Aalto," in 1965, and another, "America's Architectural Heritage," in 1974, both for the Smithsonian Institution.