India Habitat Center-Delhi

The first time I visited Joseph Allen Stein's India Habitat Center in the heart of Delhi on Lodhi Road, it just blew me away with it simple yet formidable lines. The inner courtyards, created a space protected yet not severed from the elements.

These pictures were taken last year when I returned to visit it yet again.

There are are slew of Stien's buildings in this part of Delhi, sitting comfortably alongside the tombs of the Lodhis, so much so that it is informally know as Steinabad (inside architectural circles only I would think).

The entrances remind me of the magnificent gateways in the Red Fort and other Mughal buildings I have visited where they serve as transitional spaces-from one realm to another, outside to inside, private to public.