Archinect - News2024-05-02T23:32:43-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/129867356/an-angry-passion-round-up-of-global-tributes-to-charles-correa
"An Angry Passion": Round-Up of Global Tributes to Charles Correa Julia Ingalls2015-06-18T13:31:00-04:00>2015-06-23T00:51:08-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/no/not2zcjwca54ixi1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Although memorial tributes are rarely upbeat, an unusual tenor of melancholy pervades the world's reaction to Charles Correa's death late Tuesday at age 84. The architect named "India's Greatest" by <a href="http://www.architecture.com/Explore/Home.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RIBA</a> in 2013 has, in his passing, seemingly become an emblem of an entire subcontinent's struggles as much as the "open-to-sky" spaces which he leaves behind. In a tribute titled "<em>Charles Correa wanted to design a better Mumbai – but the city let him down</em>" in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/18/charles-correa-mumbai-bachi-karkaria-tribute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, <strong>Bachi Karkaria</strong> portrays Correa as a visionary who was forever denied the recognition he deserved by Mumbai. "Correa’s real passion was the designing of cities that are easy to live, work, play – and commute – in. But his karma was Mumbai, which can check none of these boxes with a straight face," Karkaria writes. "The man who described cities as “places of hope” was fated to live in a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/24/mumbai-verge-imploding-polluted-megacity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">city of disappointments</a>. It’s not just because its skyline resembles an alarming ECG. More specifically, Mumbai mindlessly sabotaged two...</p>