THEORY OF DESIGN

AR. JOSEPH ALLEN STEIN

SUBMITTED TO;
AR. SACHIN PALIWAL
AR. MEGHA SHROTRI

SUBMITTED BY:
Vivek kumar
3RD SEM , 2ND YEAR
•Joseph Stein born on April
10, 1912 in Omaha , Nebraska

•Dead on October 14, 2001, at

age 89.

•He was an American

architect.

•He studied architecture at the

University of Illinois.
 He worked for Eli Jacques
Kahn in New York and with
Richard Neutra in Los
Angeles, before
establishing his own
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 was awarded the

Padma Shri, in 1992.
 DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
 He typically designed two‐ to four‐storey
buildings that fused with the surrounding trees,
gardens and pools
 flowers and vines would spill over the walls.
 Stein’s designs were modernistic, but inspired
by India’s past.
 He brought a ‘California modernism’ sensibility
to this country.
 “He was good at working with local materials”.
Projects

EXPRESS TOWER , FORD FOUNDATION

MUMBAI HEADQUATER
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE
INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE
SHER-I-KASHMIR CONFRECE CENTRE
 This site is at lodi garden
, new delhi , India.
 It was designed in 1968.
 It is a commercial
building, office building.
 The building is currently
used by the United
Nations Development
Program (UNDP).
India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road
• It is located at lodi road,
new delhi.
• Its construction was started
in 1988 and completed in
1993.
• Its is commercial ,
educational and public
building, used as office ,
library and auditorium.
• A complex of six-to-seven-
storey structures in a
campus-like plan grouped
around interlinked plazas
and courtyards.
•. The centre contains office
spaces, an auditorium, conference
and library facilities, exhibition and
museum space, and support
services.
•The construction is a concrete
frame with brick infill.
•Individual buildings are connected
together.
• It provides a great public space
for people to meet and mill
around," said Ashok Dhawan.
• In many ways, it’s a modern
courtyard or a series of internal
courtyards created by individual
buildings
 India International Centre
• It is located on max mueller
road, new Delhi , India.
• This project was started on
1959 and was completed on
1962.
• It is an educational and
public\cultural building used
as researched centre and
conference centre.
• It is designed as a
composition of closely
integrated buildings, grouped
around two courts.
•The Ford Foundation offices are
connected to the main building by
a bridge
•The construction was a concrete
frame with stone and concrete
block infill.
•If you look at the way you move
through the spaces, you enter the
lobby in a certain way
• From everywhere you keep
getting views of the Lodi Gardens
foliage," said K.T. Ravindran.
•"That is still one of the most
beautiful buildings in Delhi
because it merges indoor and
outdoor spaces."
Sher-i-Kashmir Conference Center
 It is located in Srinagar ,
India.
 Contruction strated on
1984.
 This building is used as
hotel and confrence centre.
 The hotel is composed of
long narrow blocks, one
room deep, grouped around
open courtyards.
 The exterior is a precisely
articulated concrete frame,
expressive of the structural
scheme.
 The walls are clad with concrete
blocks of exposed green colour
aggregate, crushed from local
stone.
 The roof is clad with blue-grey
local slate.
 The conference facilities are
grouped in several blocks
organised into a structurally
symmetrical arrangement of
separated blocks supported by
eight massive piers and
interlocked beams.
 Express Towers Mumbai
One of the most iconic
skyscrapers on the
Mumbai skyline for over
four decades.

Express Towers at
Nariman Point is a much
sought-after commercial
property in Mumbai’s
Central Business District
(CBD).