JOSEPH ALLEN STEIN

LIST OF PROJECTS
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling, 1953
Institute of Child Health, Calcutta, 1955
Durgapur Steel Township, West Bengal, 1955-59
Rourkela Steel Township, Orissa, 1955-59
Tata Iron and Steel Township, Jamshedpur, 1955-59
The Australian High Commission, New Delhi, 1958
Triveni Kala Sangam Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 1957, 1977
Gandhi Bhavan, Delhi, 1958
YWCA Guest House, New Delhi, 1959
Industrial Buildings for Escorts Ltd., Faridabad, 1960
American International School, New Delhi, 1962
India International Centre, New Delhi, 1962
Kennedy General Education Centre, AMU, Aligarh, 1966
Home Science College, Ludhiana, 1966
Headquarters for Ford Foundation, New Delhi, 1968
Master Plan for Lodi Park, New Delhi, 1968
Indian Express Tower, Bombay, 1968
Ethiopian Embassy, New Delhi, 1970
Memorial Plaza, New Delhi, 1970
Master Plan for Dal Lake Area, Kashmir Valley, 1970
Conservatory/Greenhouse, New Delhi, 1971
Master Plan for the Gulmarg-Tanmarg Area, Kashmir Valley, 1972
Child Development Centre, New Delhi, 1976
Environmental and Development Planning for Bhutan, 1970-80
Royal Guest House, Thimpu, Bhutan, 1977
Headquarters for UNICEF, New Delhi, 1981
Factory for Gujarat Steel Tubes, Ahmedabad, 1982
Kashmir Conference Centre, Jammu & Kashmir, 1977-84
Bankers Institute for Rural Development, Lucknow, 1985
Confederation of Engineering Industry, New Delhi, 1987
National Trade Centre and Exhibition Building, New Delhi, 1988
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 1988
Headquarters of World Wild Life Fund for Nature-India, New Delhi, 1990
Academy of Rural Banking, Lucknow, 1990
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“ Buildings should reflect the culture and the tradition of its region through its design and materials”
 HIS BIOGRAPHY

Joseph Allen Stein ( 1912-2001 ) was a American architect

He studied architecture at the University of Illinois, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Cranbrook
Academy of Art.
In San Francisco, he designed modest homes in the California style, but also became increasingly interested in the issues of low
cost housing.

With the outbreak of the Korean war and the rise of McCarthyism in 1950, he felt the need to find a location where his talent as
an architect could be more freely expressed, and so left the US, first to Mexico and then to Europe, and finally to teach at Bengal
Engineering College outside Calcutta.

In 1952 he moved to India, and became head of the department of architecture at the Bengal Engineering College in Calcuttan.
He worked in New Delhi from 1955 onwards, starting with another American architect, Benjamin Polk [5] and even after retirement
in 1995, continued to design for the architecture firm he founded.
Over the year, he brought in 'California modernism' to several buildings he designed in Delhi.

He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, in 1992.
 HIS PHILOSOPHY

 MODERN REGIONALISM
DESIGN FEATURES
He brought California modernism
sensitivity to the country. His approach
is called as MODERN REGIONALISM
• Inter relationships of the site with landscape, structure and materials.
• Horizontal and vertical garden
• Use of local materials
• Use of Jalis
• Use of courtyards
• Use modern construction techniques
 The Second guiding factor is to seek
• Shell geometries- dome , vault and structural roof systems
the character of the solution in the
nature of the problem.
He realised the impact the development
was having on ecology and his designs
sought to find harmony.
INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE ( NEW DELHI )

IIC facilitates for a variety of artistic and scholarly activities,

conferences organized by national and international groups.
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE

It is a complex of institutional and office spaces,

conferences and library facilities for groups involved with
environment and habitat issues.
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