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Charles Correa (1930–2015) was one of the most important architects of post-Independence India. Born on the 1st September 1930 in Secunderabad, India, he studied in St Xavier’s College in Mumbai before doing his Bachelors in Architecture at the University of Michigan. Following this, he completed…
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In his famous essay, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, published in the 1930s, Walter Benjamin makes a passing, but profound, comment about our experience of architecture. Benjamin suggests that, as with film, the work of architecture is usually experienced collectively in a…
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Website of Charles Correa Associates
Charles Correa Archives, Charles Correa Foundation, Goa
Projects by Correa
'City on the Water' (17 min; 1975), a documentary directed by Charles Correa on the problems facing Bombay in the 1960s–'70s that led to the decision to create New Bombay (now Navi…
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