JOSEPH AllEN STEIN

Sibasankar Nayak113AR0011

Introduction : Born in 1912 in USA Worked with the great Architect Richard Neutra. Moved to Delhi and did his major works. His buildings represent the best of post-independence

construction in Delhi.

TRIVENI KALA SANGAM

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

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

blue glazed ceramic jaalis between guest rooms

Steel framed accordion window wall

Operable aluminum vertical louvres pivot laterally to block out the low western sun.

INDIA HABITAT CENTRE

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.

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."