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1. CHARLES CORREA

2. Education
1946-1948 Inter-science. St. Xavier's college, university of Bombay
1949-1953 B.Arch., University of Michigan.
1953-1955 M.Arch., Massachusetts institute of technology.
Professional Experience
1955-1958 Partner with G.M. BHUTA associates
1964-1965 Prepared master plan proposing twin city across
1971-1975
the harbor from Bombay.
Chief architect to CIDCO
1975-1976 Consultant to UN secretory-general for HABITAT
1975-1983 Chairman Housing Urban Renewal & Ecology Board
1985 Chairman Dharavavi planning commission

3. Born on 1 September 1930 into a middle-class Catholic family in
Secunderabad.
Became fascinated with the principles of design as a child.
At Michigan two professors who influenced him the most - Walter
Salders and Buckminister Fuller.
Kevin lynch , then in the process of developing his themes for
image of the city triggered Correa’s interest in urban issues.
‘India of those days was a different place, it was a brand-new
country, there was so much hope; India stimulated me.’

4. AWARDS
1961
1972
1980
1984
1985
1986
1987
1990
1994
1999
Prize for low-income housing
PadmaShri by the President of India
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Michigan
Gold Medal- Royal Institute of British Architects
Prize for the Improvement in the Quality of Human
Settlements from the International Union of Architects.
Chicago ArchitectureAward.
Gold Medal- Indian Institute of Architects
Gold Medal (International Union of Architects)
The Premium Imperial from Japan society of art.
Aga khan award for vidhan sabha, bhopal

5. Diversity
In Bombay - Salvacao Church at
Dadar ; KanchenjungaApartments
In Goa for Kala Academy
In Ahmedabad - Gandhi Smarak
Sangrahalaya ; Ramkrishna House
Delhi - The LIC Centre; British
Council Building
Kerala - Kovalam Beach Resort Hotel
Andaman - Bay Island Hotel in Port
Blair
His Architectural utility and
grandeur was spread over the
subcontinent

6. Principles
Few cardinal principles in his vast body of work-
Incrementality
Identity
Pluralism
Income generation
Equity
Open-to-sky space
Disaggregation.
Belapur housing being the one project where he has literally
used these principals

7. Architect, planner, activist and theoretician, an international
lecturer and traveler
Correa's work in India shows a careful development,
understanding and adaptation of Modernism to a non-western
culture. Correa's early works attempt to explore a local vernacular
within a modern environment. Correa's land-use planning and
community projects continually try to go beyond typical solutions
to third world problems.
India's first man of architecture has a very simple philosophy:
"Unless you believe in what you do, it becomes … boring,"

8. Correa and Corbusier
• Like most architects of his generation he has been influenced by Le
Corbusier , but by his response to the Mediterranean sun with his
grand sculptural decisions he believes that Corbusier’s influence in
the colder climates has not been beneficial because these heroic
gestures had to withdraw into defensible space, into mechanically
heated (and cooled) interiors of the building.
• On way back to Bombay in 1955 - saw the Jaoul House (le
Corbusier) in Paris under
• construction. He said:
• ‘I was absolutely knocked out . It was a whole new world way beyond
anything being taught in America at that time ,then I saw Chandigarh
& his buildings in Ahmedabad . They seemed the only way to build.”

9. Correa and Gandhi
Gandhi's goal for an independent India had been a village
model, non-industrial, its architecture simple and traditional
Inthese early works Correa demonstrates uncompromising
execution of an idea as a powerful statement of form.

10. KANCHENJUNGA
APARTMENTS
The building had to be oriented east – west to capture prevailing sea breeze and
views to the city.

11. But also the orientation for hot sun and heavy rains
This building has 32 different apartments with 4 types of flats varying from 3 to 6
bedrooms.
Interlocking of these variations expressed externally by shear end walls that hold
up the cantilevers
Minimalist surfaces cut away to open up double-height terrace gardens at the
corners
Complex spatial organization of living spaces

12. BELASPUR HOUSING

13. Project demonstrates how high density housing (500 people per hectare)
can be achieved in a low-rise typology, while including (open to sky spaces)
and services, like schools, that the community requires
Overriding principle - to give each unit its own site to allow for expansion
(Incrementality)
Units are Malleable so that they can be colonized by occupants, and
modified to their social/cultural/religious needs (Identity)
Houses constructed simply and can be built by traditional masons and
craftsmen - generating employment for local workers (Income generation)
several plans exist that cover the social spectrum, from squatters to upper
income families (Pluralism)
Yet, the footprint of each plan varies little in size (from 45 sqm to 70 sqm),
maintaining equity (fairness) in the community

15. Small shared courtyard 8mx8m around
which seven houses are grouped.
The sites themselves vary in size only
marginally (from 45 to 70 sq m)
The houses are structurally simple , can be
built and altered by local mistries