WORKS OF JOSEPH ALLEN STEIN

TRIVENI KALA SANGAM

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

RESIDENCESMUSIC ROOMS

DANCE ROOMS

ART GALLERIES

OPEN LANDSCAPED COURTYARD

CAFETERIA

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

• Each courtyard serves a different function.• Flooring: part lawn, part paved with blue- green kota stone.• Detailed coffered ceilings

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

BUILDING DETAILS

Jaali screening guestrooms at entry court- fire clay tile and steel pipe jaalis facing out

‘Delhi’ blue glazed ceramic jaalis 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."