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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1956
Born: June 19, 1882;
New York, New York, USA
Died: 1975;
New York,New York,USA
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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
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• 1950s: Town of Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada
• 1936: Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Penn.
• 1932: Radburn, New Jersey
• 1929: Temple Emanu-El, New York City
Biography
Clarence Stein studied architecture at Columbia University and
at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He then began working as an
architect and in 1915 helped plan the San Diego World’s Fair;
by the early 1920s, he had taken up planning in the place of
architectural work. From 1923 to 1926, he chaired the New York
State Housing and Regional Planning Commission.
In 1923 Stein cofounded, with Lewis Mumford and Henry Wright, the
Regional Plan Association of America (later becoming the Regional
Development Council of America), a group involved in bringing the
garden-city planning concept from Great Britain to America.
One of America’s most progressive and controversial
architects and planners, Stein’s legacy is his vision for the
garden-city concept as implemented in the United States.
Characterized as self-sustaining communities, they were intended to
be green-based, pedestrian-friendly residential areas organized
functionally in support of the residents’ needs. His vision
for the planned community of Radburn, N.J., was prototypical of the
concept, although it failed in that community under the pressures
of the Depression. Later, Stein designed or collaborated on the
planned communities of Greenbelt, Md.; Greendale, Wisc.;
Greenhills, Ohio; and Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York. His last
commission based on the garden-city concept was Kitimat, British
Columbia, Canada.
In 1951 Stein wrote Toward New Towns for America. In 1958 he
received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Institute
of Planners. He also received the Ebenezer Howard Memorial Medal
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