CHARLES CORREA

INTRODUCTION
• Charles Correa was born in Hyderabad, India
in 193O.
• 1946-48 St. Xavier's college, University of
Bombay;
• 1949-53 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(Bachelor of Architecture);
• 1953-55 the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge/Massachusetts with
Richard Buckminster Fuller (master of
Architecture).
 PRACTICE

• He started his practice in 1956 with

partners G.M. Butha & Assoc. in
Bombay.
• He started his own office from 1958.
 PROFILE
• Architect, planner, activist and theoretician,
Correa has emerged as a major figure in
contemporary architecture world wide.
• Correa's work in India shows a careful
development, understanding and adaptation of
Modernism to a non-western culture.
• .From 1970-75, he was Chief Architect for 'New
Bombay' an urban growth center of 2 million
people, across the harbor from the existing city.
•
• In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed
him Chairman of the national Commission on
Urbanization.
• He has taught at universities both in India and
abroad, including Harvard, Penn, Tulane and
Washington Universities, and has been the Sir
Banister Fletcher Professor at the University of
London, the Albert Bemis Professor at MIT, and
the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Cambridge.
 Honors
1.1979 honour member American of
institutes of Architecture,
2.1984 RIBA gold Medal,
3.1987 Indian of institutes of
Architecturegold Medal,
4.1993 hon1our member RIBA,
5.1994 Praemium imperial Japan kind
Association.
 His projects

• The first important order of Correa is the

memorial place for Mahatma Gandhi in
Sangrahalaya with Ahmedabad (1958-63), an
accumulation of buildings, grouped loosely
around a central water yard, which integrate
Gandhis house.
• Meeting buildings (1951-58) in Chandigarh .
• Administration building (1958-60) and the
philosophical faculty (1959-60) the Vallabh
Vidyanagar university in Anand.
• Twin houses in Bhavangar (1959)
• The Hindustan Lever Pavillion (1961) on
the exhibition sites of Delhi reveals all
constructional possibilities of the concrete
building method
• Tube house in Ahmadabad (1962)
• Cablenger township in Kota(1967)
• Patwardhan houses in Pune (1967)
• Kanchanjunga apartments in
Bombay(1970)
• Suatter housing in Bombay (1973)
• Malbar cement in Kerala (1973)
• Tapa house in delhi (19775)
• JNIDB in Hyderabad(1986)
• CCMB in hyderabad (1986)
• JNC at IISC in banglore(1990)
 His books and publications
• Modernity and Community: Architecture in the
by Kenneth Frampton, Charles Correa,
David Robson, and Aga Khan Award for
Architecture .
• Himalayan Vernacular by Carl Pruscha
and Charles Correa .
• The New Landscape: Urbanization in the
Third World by Charles Correa .
• Housing and Urbanization: Building Solutions for Peo
by Charles Correa .
• Magellan's Voyage Around the World by Antonio
Pigafetta, Maximilian of Transylvania, Gaspar
Correa, and Charles E. Nowell .
• Matematica Uso Diario Para Dummies by
Charles Seiter and Maria Mercedes Correa.
• Housing & urbanisation by Charles Correa .
• The value of place: Urban stategies for
California's Central Valley towns by Charles
Correa .
 HIS FAMOUS BUILDINGS

A section of the
Jawahar Kala Kendra
arts centre (1986–92),
designed by Charles
Correa, in Jaipur,
Rajasthan, India.

JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA

 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE
OF TECNOLOGY
Charles Correa has completed his
first major project in the United
States on the campus of the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, working in
collaboration with the Boston firm of
Goody Clancy.
The building reflects Correa's
modern formalism and his interest in
playing solids against voids, not
only on the outside, but also in an
interior courtyard. Correa's work is
noted for its planar quality, which is
very strong in the new MIT building.
 RESEARCH CENTRE
• At 411,000 square feet, MIT's Brain &
Cognitive Center is the largest neuroscience
research center in the world. And it's not
your father's lab space. Designed by Charles
Correa (with research spaces by Goody,
Clancy & Associates), the Center has a
breathtaking 90-foot tall, sunlit atrium, which
provides natural light and a sense of
openness to facilitate chance encounters
between scientists, ideally prompting
inspiration and collaboration
GANdHI ASHRAM
 OLIVERS HOUSE

Located at 40 Roberts Street, this

"Industrial Victorian" home is energy
efficient and low maintenance with all
the charm of a historic home.
• This house features: *2 bedrooms/ 2 bathroooms
*Antique building materials *Hardwood interior walls
*Radiant heat throughout *Custom kitchen cabinets
*2 x 6 construction for added strength and
insulation.
• *Acid-washed concrete floor and hardwood floors
*Corrugated poured-concrete foundation with
distressed finish.
• *Pebble dash stucco exterior walls (durable, historic
style, attractive!) *Corrugated metal roof (long-
lasting, recyclable) *Highly energy-eficient Pella
windows *Round tower with artistic details 2-story
front porch with sunset view *Edible Landscaping
*Access to community garden, hot tub and courtyard
HOUSES IN KERALA ,designed
by correa.