WORKS OF JOSEPH ALLEN STEIN

TRIVENI KALA SANGAM

Founded in 1952 as an academy of dance, music and painting.

 MUSIC ROOMS RESIDENCES

CAFETERIA

OPEN DANCE ROOMS

LANDSCAPED
COURTYARD

ART GALLERIES

SEMI-OPEN ART
GALLERY
Clad reinforced concrete frame structure with several infill materials: jaali
panels along the classroom block corridor and stairs, concrete block with a
plastered finish and rough-cut stone facing presented to the street.
Triveni Garden Theatre Jaali detail in the courtyard
INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE
The IIC (1959- 62) was planned to provide a variety of artistic and
scholarly activities, conferences and symposia organised by national and
international groups.
 COURTYARDS

View from the rear gardens to the centre court Verandah under the guestrooms

• Each courtyard serves a different function.

• Flooring: part lawn, part paved with blue- green kota stone.
• Detailed coffered ceilings
 BUILDING DETAILS

Jaali screening guestrooms at entry court- fire clay tile ‘Delhi’ blue glazed ceramic jaalis
and steel pipe jaalis facing out between guest rooms
 Accordion Window Wall:
• Steel framed accordion
window wall which
when folded away
transforms the whole
space and its balcony
extension into a deep
verandah.
 Vertical Sliding
Louvres:
• Operable aluminum
vertical louvres pivot
laterally to block out
the low western sun.
GANDHI-KING PLAZA
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE
The IHC, built in 1988, was designed as a moderately dense
complex of institutional and office workspaces, conference and
library facilities for people involved with the environment and
habitat issues.
 STRUCTURE

• The external facade is in a language of exposed red brick, exposed concrete

and glass.
• Use of horizontal and vertical ribbon windows having slots in them for
plantation purposes.
• Carefully conceived brick patterns in the courtyards and variegated brick
coursing in the building’s vertical piers.
• Connections between different building blocks through aerial walkways.
• Landscaped courtyards created between the different building blocks.
COURTYARDS

• Constant flow of
natural air through
the courtyard.
• Sunlight streams
into the space,
being broken by the
large space frame
structure on the
roof level with blue
reflectors that can
be aligned to
provide shade
during summer and
allow the winter sun
to penetrate.
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION

Using local materials and with an understanding of the harsh Delhi

climate, this house relates to the lush green landscape in which it sits.
Open stone jalis or perforated screens, combine with large expanses of
glass in a way that respected both traditional knowledge and modernist
principles.
"Two things have essentially guided my work. One is what you might call
an interest in and search for an appropriate modern regionalism. I would
put equal emphasis on both words, 'regional' and 'modern', because
regional without modern is reactionary, and modern without regional is
insensitive,
inappropriate. The second one is to seek the character of the solution in
the nature of the problem, as much as one possibly can."