Charles Correa

1930–2015 · Indian · 11 buildings on the wall

Charles Correa (1930–2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, credited with shaping modern architecture in India after independence. He studied at the University of Michigan and at MIT, and opened his practice in Mumbai in 1958. He was known for concern for the urban poor and his use of traditional methods and materials, and he received the Royal Gold Medal in 1984 and the Praemium Imperiale in 1994.

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His first significant project was the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya (1963), the museum at Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. From 1970 to 1975 he was chief architect for the new city of Navi Mumbai. At the National Crafts Museum in New Delhi (1991) he used what he called "rooms open to the sky", courtyards placed throughout the building. The Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur (1991) takes the nine-square plan of the old city of Jaipur and the Navagraha mandala, each square standing for a planet and the centre left open. Bharat Bhavan, an arts centre in Bhopal (1982), faces the Upper Lake. Charles Correa's projects are studied for courtyards, traditional materials and older ideas of space.

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