Charles Correa, architect Goan Indian origin, died on Tuesday night in Mumbai. I was 84 years old and was sick.
In addition to architect Correa, who was born in Secunderabad in 1930 and studied in the USA, was also known as an urban planner, activist and theoretician. The Indian criticized several times the way cities are planned today. “Market forces do not make the cities, destroy them,” he argued since the architect, now remembers the BBC.
Charles Correa leaves a vast work in India. The architect was responsible for the New Bombay plan, a new city for two million people built in the 1970s across the bay. It is the author of the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi in Rajghat, the Kanchanjunga tower, built in Mumbai, the Hotel City Goa, Dona Paula, and the Permanent Mission of India in New York.
In Portugal, the architect designed the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon. In an interview with the PUBLIC architectural criticism, Ana Vaz Milheiro, Charles Correa explained with was impressed when he visited the first Bethlehem, where in 2010 opened the Research Centre for the Unknown: “I had heard of Bethlehem and asked, ‘It’s the same place where explorers departed’, said yes and thought: ‘So I have to go see this place where the river turns into the ocean. ‘” Wanted to have a good idea before accepting the project, “it would be stupid to come from so far and make a common thing.”
Before the Champalimaud Centre, Correa projected in 2005, another targeted building for research in neuroscience. This is the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex in Boston, part of the structure of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the American university where the architect was formed and where he also taught.
It was that same year, in 2005, Charles Correa received the degree of doctor honorary , awarded by the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon. Distinction that had already received the University of Michigan in the United States and several important awards such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Prize of the International Union of Architects and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
When ten years ago was in Lisbon to receive the honorary , Correa told PUBLIC as housing was an important part in their work. “Today we hear little of it, unlike the early twentieth century. It is not only important for social and economic reasons, an obvious problem in India, but also to train the mind of an architect. Unlike a museum or an airport that can work without being in connection with the place where they live, housing is as the word in the sentence, is like the syntax, you must relate to several things. It has to be in connection with culture, climate, materials, style of life, “he argued.
The architect defended the idea that the buildings should have passive means to protect people living there against external elements such as heat, light or rain. On this basis, developed a project for a house to be used in a nomadic manner. Ie building with provisions in accordance with the hours: a space for the morning, another for the afternoon, another for the night. Is it better example, “tube house” in Ahmedabad, seen as a contemporary sustainable design template.
“Charles Correa was the inspiration for the infusion of modernity in Indian architecture after 1947. We lost an inspirational trends and a beloved father figure, “responded AFP Prakash Deshmukh, president of the Indian Institute of Architects. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, lamented on Twitter Correa’s death, for whom its architecture “was widely cherishes.” His works “reflecting its brilliance, its innovative zeal and a wonderful aesthetic sense.” Also on Twiiter, the Indian author Amitav Ghosh recalled Charles Correa as “one of the greatest architects of modern India and a great friend.”
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