Edward Durell Stone (1902–1978) was an American architect who began as an early champion of the International Style and became known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he was principal designer of Radio City Music Hall and, from 1936, associate architect with Philip Goodwin on the new Museum of Modern Art in New York. His US Embassy in New Delhi (1959), a temple-like pavilion on a raised podium that Frank Lloyd Wright called one of the most beautiful buildings he had seen, made his career.
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His first independent commission, the Richard H. Mandel House in New York State (1935), comes from his International Style years. His later, more ornamental buildings include the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico (1965) and the Kennedy Center in Washington (1971). He also designed the W. E. B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1974) and the Aiwan-e-Sadr (Presidential Palace) in Islamabad (1981). Edward Durell Stone's buildings are studied for his turn from modernist plainness to symmetry and ornament.
Richard H. Mandel House1935 · Bedford Hills
WAPDA House1967 · Lahore
Kennedy Center1971 · Washington
Aiwan-e-Sadr (Presidential Palace)1981 · Islamabad
Museo de Arte de Ponce1965 · Ponce
Davenport Public Library1968 · Davenport
W. E. B. Du Bois Library1974 · Amherst