JOSEPH ALLEIN STEIN

CONTEMPORARY

ARCHITECT

REF : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Allen_Stein

GARIMA BANSAL, 41

The path from United States to California, India and beyond

• Early life : awarded in Yale University; studied in Beaux Arts Institute, NY worked with arch. Ely Jacques Kahn and Richard Neutra• His own office, 1942 in San Francisco. • Came to India post-independence. Worked for half a

century. • It was the same time when architects like Le Corbusier,

Louis Kahn, Charles and Ray Eames, Edward Durrel Stone, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew working in India.

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.- J A Stein

Design Features

• Interrelationships of site with landscape, structure and materials; sun and shade.

• Horizontal and vertical Garden. • Use of local material.• Use of jali• Use of courtyard. Blend of built and garden that

makes the space extended.• Use of modern construction techniques.• Shell geometries – Dome, Vault and factory roof

system

PRIMARY STUDYINDIAN HABITAT CENTRE , 1986

GROUND FLOOR PLAN OF IHC

• The building has monumental scale.

landscaping and texture bring it to the human scale.

• Roof has continuous space frame of rotating panels unite the whole space

• It has colour balance . Blue colour of Rotating panels , green of plantations and Earthy red of the bricks

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL , 1970

CONICAL STEEL LATTICES AT CLASSROOM

REF : http://dglarchitects.com/projects/library-for-hs-ms-at-american-embassy-school-new-delhi

The FOLDED SHELL of the steel lattice vaulting at the classroom

Ref: American Embassy School 50th Aniversary Video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXRRD_cnlQ

INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR ESCORTS LIMITED , 1988

Ref : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17980088

The Building features four different shell configurations • Barrel vault lattice shell, Escorts plant I (1962)

• Hyperbolic parabolic lattice shell, for Escorts II plant (1964)

• Concrete domes for storage facilities (1965)

• Octagonal steel lattice domes,For plant at Surajpur (1988)

AKSHARA THEATRE, 1972

Designed by poet, director Gopal SharmanBuilt by Stein.

Human Scale of the buildings, makes it best for bringing human environment - J A Stein

Ref : Joseph Stein and The Akshara Theatrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDcdBI5uHWg

• Thus, the modern style of architecture designed by Joseph Allen Stein adapted to varying geological and climatic conditions.

• Stein believed in using building materials in their original form — like he never covered stone with plaster.

• There is a strong relationship and harmony between the immediate environment and the buildings .