Robert Fitch Smith was an American architect, active in Miami, Florida. Smith was consulting architect to the Russell Reinforced Plastics Corporation, which manufacutred the reinforced plastic panels of the ranch-style Florida beach house he designed in the early 1950s as one of the first houses using fiberglas exterior wall panels.

Smith graduated from Michigan State College with an industrial arts degree and recieved A.B and B.Arch degress from the Univeristy of Miami. He subsequently specil design work at Columbia university and the Carnegie institute of Technology.

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Bjorksten, Johan A., moderator, “The Future of Plastics in Building,” in Koehler, Charles R., ed. Plastics in building; the uses, past and present, and the potentialities of plastics in building as reported at a conference conducted by the Building Research Institute, October 27 and 28, 1954, at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington, D.C. National Research Council (U.S.). (Building Research Institute: Washington, 1955), 111-121.

Meikle, Jeffrey L. American Plastic: A Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 206.