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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:30:25 +0530
Architectural idealist
Modernist Joseph Allen Stein preferred to design public housing and
finished his career in India
Dave Weinstein, Special to The Chronicle
Saturday, April 7, 2007
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When Bay Area architects of a certain age talk about their youthful
ideals -- building for the common man, using design to create a better
society -- the name Joseph Allen Stein keeps coming up. No one was as
committed to designing for workers and the poor, nor as rigorous in his
denunciations of injustice or his analysis of social ills.
"The one person that was the intellectual power beyond all the others
was Joe Stein," said architect Donald Olsen, who attended get-togethers
with Stein and other socially conscious architects. "He was sort of the
guru. He spelled out what was going on, and we tended to respect it."
cont'd....
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/07/HOGHVP2AAP1.DTL