1930 - 2015 Born to a well-to-do family of Goa – thereby his Portuguese surname –, Correa soon felt an interest in architecture, a calling that took him to the universities of Bombay and of Michigan, completing his studies at the latter. He obtained
Always mindful of social issues, Charles Correa managed to graft the cultural and architectural traditions of his home country, India, into the modern language.
India’s master of modern architecture, Charles Correa, passed away on 16 June. He was 84 years old. Son of an affluent couple from Goa (which explains his Portuguese surname), Correa had an early calling for architecture (which he associated with his
India is not a country, but a continent. It is very hard to fully grasp its diversity, so here we attempt to explore its architecture through a series of examples that go from the Himalayas to its southern extreme. As Rahul Mehrotra explains, in cont
Este libro es una nueva edición ampliada de Un lugar a la sombra, recopilación de textos de Charles Correa que impulsó y publicó en 2008 la Fundación Caja de Arquitectos. En esta ocasión se incluyen algunos textos más de los que el célebre arquitecto
Con una población estimada en 1.160 millones de personas y una de las mayores diversidades culturales del planeta, la India presenta un paisaje construido único, marcado por una etapa de grandes transformaciones derivadas de la liberalización económi
En el segundo volumen que Thames & Hudson dedica al arquitecto indio formado en los Estados Unidos, las fotografías en bitono y los planos exhalan ese inconfundible aroma de las grandes ciudades asiáticas, mezcla de especias e incienso, y dejan ciert
