Joseph Allen Stein

Joseph Stein (10 April 1912 – 6 October 2001) was an American architect and a major figure in the establishment of a regional modern architecture in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1940s and 1950s during the early days of the environmental design movement.

[5] He worked for Ely Jacques Kahn in New York and with Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, before establishing his practice in San Francisco.

He worked in New Delhi from 1955 onwards, starting with another American architect, Benjamin Polk[6] and even after retirement in 1995, continued to design for the architecture firm he founded.

Over the year, he brought in 'California modernism' to several buildings he designed in Delhi, including, the Ford Foundation headquarters and the India International Centre (IIC) (1962), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Wide Fund for Nature, a conservatory within Lodi Gardens, Gandhi-King Plaza, an open-air memorial in IIC, Triveni Kala Sangam at Mandi House, the American Embassy School and the Australian high commission in Chanakyapuri.

[2] In 1993, Building in the Garden, a study of his work, by Stephen White, dean of the School of Architecture at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island was published.

Joseph Allen Stein in 1986
Triveni Kala Sangam and Shridharani Art Gallery facade on the left, New Delhi, 1963.
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode , the fifth IIM to be established in the prestigious IIM family, started construction of hilltop campus in 2001 and was completed by 2003.