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Stephen White walks us through the architecturalapprenticeships,the early designsand demonstrations, the friendshipsand partnerships that contributed to the ripening of Stein's exceptional masteryof the technologies, zyxwvuts aswell as the stylesand variegated impacts,of his profession.The world is well attuned to the ethnic, religiousand national cleavages that have beset Kashmir. It is time that we be reminded, by this persuasive text with its copiousillustrations, of "the other side of the coin": the "CollaborativePlan for the Valley of Kashmir " and the "combined operations"actually accomplishedand sowell describedin White's Chapter 4, "The Himalaya,"whose concluding section bears the title, "The Kashmir Conference Centre and the Re-Establishment of Kashmir as a Centre of Asian culture ." Readingof Stein's key contributions to Bhutan,New Delhi, Calcutta and elsewhere in India, one is tempted to suggest that zyxwvutsrqpo Building in the Garden could become a political statement of abidingimportance: subliminally,it sets out possibilities that insistentlyoutline "abetter way to go"for a region that must, increasingly,choose between cooperation and conflict. In this inevitable competitionfor allegiance, architecture plays a symbolicaswell as utilitarian role. Stein's designsin Kashmir recall the design and intermittent constructionof Abuja, the new capital of Nigeria.There, the redoubtable zyxwvuts Andrew C. Lemer and his associates helped concretize a new model for a wealthy and populousAfrican nation that still gropesfor the assurance and stabilityalreadyachieved,in such large measure, by the Indian subcontinent. Joseph Allen Stein had whatJoel de Rosnaywould have called a "macroscopic "vision. Like Kiyonori Kikutake, who also did much of his firstwork in California, he deserves the accolade "macro-architect"-an appellation that must be regarded as including innate respectfor human relationships,an overridingdesire to protect and enhance the environment, and the knowledge that detailed design and "human scale" must be constant preoccupations aswe seek solutionscommensuratewith the scale of the intertwined challenges of building and-in the very broadest sense-gardening. zyxwvu Izyxwv EXHIBITION I NewVoices, NewVisions International DigitalArtisticCompetition : SelectedWorks Sponsored by Interval Researchcorporation with The Voyager Company and Wired magazine, Stanford University, PaloAlto, zyxwv CA, U.S.A., 10-20 October 1994. Reviewed zyxwvut lyzyxwvutsrqp SonyaRapopmt, 6 Hillcrest Court,Berklqy, CA 94705, U.S.A.E-mail:

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