Joseph Allen Stein
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Joseph Stein, (1912-2001) was an American architect. He is noted for designing several important buildings in India.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Joseph Allen Stein was born on April 10, 1912, in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied architecture at the University of Illinois, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Cranbrook Academy of Art.[2] He apprenticed with Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, and after that he established a practice in San Francisco.
In 1952 he moved to India, and became head of the department of architecture at the Bengal Engineering College in Calcutta. He worked in New Delhi from 1955 onwards, and even after retirement in 1995, continued to design for the architecture firm he founded.
He was awarded the Padma Shri, India's highest civilian honor, in 1992. He married the late Margaret Suydam in 1938. He died on 14 October 2001, aged 89. He is survived by their sons David and Ethan.
[edit] Selected projects
- 1940: "One Family Defense House" (with Gregory Ain), unbuilt[3]
- 1940: "Low-Cost House", unbuilt[4]
- 1947: Ladera Cooperative (with John Funk; landscape architect: Garrett Eckbo), Palo Alto, CA
- Several buildings in Lodi Estate, New Delhi, including the headquarters of the Ford Foundation, Unicef and the World Wide Fund for Nature, a conference center called the India International Center, and the India Habitat Center for housing and environmental studies.
- Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode campus, Kerala.
- Triveni Kala Sangam arts center, New Dehli
- Several factories with roofs inspired by the domes used in traditional Indian architecture
- Kashmir Conference Center
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lewis, Paul (October 14, 2001), “Joseph Stein, 89, Architect Noted for Work in India, Is Dead”, New York Times., <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E1DB103FF937A25753C1A9679C8B63>
- ^ Weinstein, Dave (April 7, 2007), “Architectural idealist: Modernist Joseph Allen Stein preferred to design public housing and finished his career in India”, San Francisco Chronicle., <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/07/HOGHVP2AAP1.DTL>
- ^ “One Family Defense House Project, Designed by Gregory Ain”, Architectural Forum 73, November 1940.
- ^ “Low-Cost House”, Architectural Forum 73, October 1940.
[edit] Other sources
- White, Stephen (1993). Building in the Garden: The Architecture of Joseph Allen Stein in India and California. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195629248.
