Associate Professor Jeffrey Chusid will help lead a colloquium lecture, exhibition, and reception about Joseph Allen Stein with Stein’s son J. David Stein and Professor Mary N. Woods later this week.
Joseph Allen Stein (1912–2001) was a rising young architect in the San Francisco Bay Area when the political storms of the time drove him and his family to India. He became one of the leading figures in the architecture of independence, and today his buildings, include the India International Centre, the India Habitat Centre, and the Triveni Kala Sangam, among others. Stein’s interests included long-span lightweight structures, regional modernism, the environment of the Himalayas, and sustainability more broadly.
Jeffrey Mark Chusid is a preservation architect and planner whose research, teaching, and writing have focused on the fate of historic resources in areas of cultural exchange and conflict, the conservation of modernist architecture and planning, especially in the U.S. and India, and sustainable development using historic sites and communities. His next book is a study of the expatriate architect Joseph Allen Stein and his career in the U.S. and India.
The colloquium lecture titled Between Worlds: The Life and Work of Joseph Allen Stein in the U.S. and India will be on Friday, October 21, 2022 at 12:25 p.m. in the Abbey and Howard Milstein Auditorium in Milstein Hall. The colloquium presentation will include talks by Stein’s son, David Stein, a planner with extensive experience in the U.S. and India, and Associate Professor Jeffrey M. Chusid, who is working on a book on the architect. They will be joined by Professor Mary N. Woods, who has written on many aspects of modern architecture in India, for a discussion following the talks.
The Between Worlds Exhibition will be held from Monday, October 17 – Friday, October 28, 2022 in the Bibliowicz Family Gallery in Milstein Hall, open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. This year, Stein’s family has given a significant tranche of materials from his personal archive to the Cornell University Library. The gift includes some 5,000 drawings, firm brochures, publications, and other documents from over 70 years of Stein’s professional life. Jeffrey Chusid will present the exhibition based on the gift.
There will be a Reception on October 20, 2022, at 5 p.m.