The US architect Joseph Allen Stein (1912 – 2001) spent the last forty years of his professional life in India. A man driven by humanitarian and environmental passions, he worked on cooperative and low-cost social housing in California and then, troubled by McCarthyism, he took up work in Calcutta and later Delhi, exhilarating in the [...]
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American modernism in Delhi
Posted in Gardens, India, Modern design, United States, tagged India Habitat Centre, Joseph Allen Stein, Margaret Stein, modern regionalism on August 28, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Lodi Gardens
Posted in Gardens, India, Parks, tagged Delhi parks, Garrett Eckbo, Lodi Gardens on August 15, 2011 | 23 Comments »
We are ten days into our three-year Indian sojourn and finding much to enjoy, and much that has us floundering. Yesterday, in soul-sapping heat, we visited one of our local parks in New Delhi, the Lodi Gardens. At first, it looks simply like a lush green area amid the chaos of the city. There are [...]
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