Friday, October 31, 2008

Architect Charles Correa,Bombay,INDIA





Architect, planner, activist and theoretician, Correa has emerged as a major figure in contemporary architecture world wide. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and at MIT. In private practice in Bombay since 1958, his work covers a wide range, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati Ashram, to the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and the State Assembly for madhya Pradesh - as well as townships and public housing project in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Bangalore an other cities in India

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Charles Correa - Kenneth Frampton, a proposito dei primi vent'anni di attivita di Charles Correa, nel saggio che gli ha dedicato nel 1996 parla di due paradigm:l"open to sky" space e il "tube dwelling" - Maria Vittoria Capatanucci in Arbitare

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