Clarence Stein

Trained as an architect, Stein participated in several of the most influential housing complex designs of the 20th century, including the “garden city” plans for Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York; Radburn, New Jersey; Chatham Village in Pittsburgh; and Baldwin Hills Village (known today as Village Green) in Los Angeles. He attended both Columbia University and the Ecôle des Beaux Arts. 

In 1921, he and Henry Wright developed a partnership rooted in Ebenezer Howard’s “Garden City” ideals of safe, community-based housing.