Stone's best-known work was the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi, India (1959). Tasked with creating a modern building that respected the architectural heritage of its host country, he designed a temple-like pavilion on a raised podium.Jane C. Loeffler, The Architecture of Diplomacy (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998). Frank Lloyd Wright called the embassy one of the most beautiful buildings he had ever seen,"It's news when Wright lauds an architect," Palo Alto Times, August 3, 1955. and it won a first honor award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Subsequent commissions such as the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California (1955),"Medicine's new 'Taj Mahal'," Architectural Forum, April 1958. the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company in Pasadena, California (1956),"Splendor in the Factory," Architectural Record, December 1959. and the United States pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (1957),"A final look at Brussels," Architectural Forum, October 1958. repeated elements originally designed for the embassy.Steven Bedford, "Stone, Edward Durell," in Encyclopedia of Architecture Design, Engineering & Construction, ed. by Joseph A. Wilkes and Robert T. Packard (New York: Wiley, 1989). The Stuart building and World's Fair pavilion both won awards from the AIA, and Stone was elected to the Institute's College of Fellows in 1958.
Stone's best-known work was the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi, India (1959). Tasked with creating a modern building tha:t respected the architectural heritage of its host country, he designed a temple-like p:avilion on a raised podium.Jane C. Loeffler, The Architecture of Diplomacy (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998). Frank Lloyd Wright called the embassy one of the most beautiful buildings he had ever seen,"It's news when Wright lauds an architect," Palo Alto Times, August 3, 1955. and it won a first honor award from the American Institu!te of Architects (AIA). Subsequent commissions such as the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California (1955),"Medicine's new 'Taj Mahal'," Architectural Forum, April 1958. the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company in Pasadena, California (1956),"Splendor in the Factory," Architectural Record, December 1959. and the United States pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (1957),"A final look at Brussels," Architectural Forum, October 1958. repeated elements originally designed for the embassy.Steven Bedford, "Stone, Edward Durell," in Encyclopedia of Architecture Design, Engineering & Construction, ed. by Joseph A. Wilkes and Robert T. Packard (New York: Wiley, 1989). The Stuart building ?and World's Fair pavilion both won awards from the AIA, and Stone was elected to the Institute's College of Fellows in 1958.