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Charles Correa's Kala Academy needs saving

2019-08-06T18:58:00-04:00

Kala Academy, Goa’s cultural centre, which was designed by the renowned architect Charles Correa in the late 1970s, is threatened with demolition by the State Government in the near future. It is an exceedingly important building, not just among Correa’s international repertoire, but also in the State of Goa.

A petition has been started to save Goa, India's Kala Academy. It has served as a true cultural hub for its local community, being "the only government-run arts institution in the country with separate faculties for both Western and Indian classical music, and also offers courses in theatre and dance."

The Academy had also been the location of many music performances, film screenings, and dramas. In short, it has been a vibrant part of the local fabric and many hope for it to continue to be.

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2015-06-24T09:24:00-04:00

Amelia Taylor-Hochberg penned What makes an artless museum?, which reviewed the February Sky-lit event/preview of the new Broad Museum. Therein she argues that it provided "an opportunity for the architecture to be treated as a relational art object, but not so it could be handled with velvet gloves". Chris Teeter commented "great article, it's worth 2 or 3 reads…" Donna Sink wrote "A meaty essay...on the Broad Museum (meat, contraceptive sponges, art, raw spectacle: it's a big topic"

Plus, Julia Ingalls explored the Role of Software vs. Vision in Architectural Employment. Derek Kaplan thought it was a "Great article on a topic that needs more discussion."

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Charles Correa, named "India’s Greatest Architect" by RIBA, died at 84. jla-x eulogized "He was pretty great. I studied his residential developments extensively as a student...He will be missed".

Despite recovering from several major surgeries for cancer, Tadao Ando spoke with NHK World about; recent projects, the durability of...

Charles Correa, legendary Indian architect, dies at 84

2015-06-17T13:43:00-04:00

Born in 1930 in the southern Indian city of Secunderabad, Mr. Correa studied at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and then went on to attend theUniversity of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. to study architecture. “To work in India is the great advantage of life in the Third World. The issues are so much bigger than you are; they give you a chance to grow,” Mr. Correa wrote in his book ‘Housing and Urbanization.’

Charles Correa died at home Tuesday night in Mumbai, after a bout of brief illness (according to BBC news). He is known for the diversity and far-reaching quality of his work in India and elsewhere, including affordable housing, master planning, and high-profile academic and diplomatic structures. In 2013, RIBA named him "India's Greatest Architect". Up until his death, he served as a consulting architect with the Goa government in India.

After studying at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Correa earned architecture degrees from the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of his best known architectural works include the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in Ahmedabad, the Kanchanjunga Apartment tower in Mumbai, MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center in Boston, and the Parumala Church, as well as his master planning work for Navi Mumbai in the 1960s.

RIP Charles Correa, 1930-2015

↑ British Council, Delhi

↑ Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Ahmedabad

↑ Kanchanjunga Apartm...

"Great City...Terrible Place": A discussion on the urban future of India

2015-03-27T14:00:00-04:00

India is currently the second most populated country in the world, closely following China, at 1.25 billion people. Around 30 percent of its inhabitants, roughly the population of the entire United States, live in urban areas that continue to grow. The astonishing numbers are proof of the country’s demographic explosion, and make Indian cities a fascinating combination of chaos and vitality rarely found elsewhere. Great City…Terrible Place, this year’s Z-AXIS symposium curated by the Charles Correa Foundation in Goa, explored the complex forces shaping global cities in an effort to understand the dynamism of India’s ever-changing urban centers. Held over three days at Kala Academy, one of Correa’s masterworks, the conference brought together speakers from different corners of the world to share their views with an audience eager to take an active role in India’s urban transformation.

The conference’s moderator, Pratyush Shankar, described cities as places of will, where people forge ...

uncube talks to Charles Correa

2013-07-01T18:55:00-04:00

When Charles Correa was recently in London for the opening of his RIBA exhibition, Rob Wilson spoke with him about some of the key ideas, influences and recurrent themes in his work throughout his long career.

Charles Correa's influence and style

2013-05-14T10:17:00-04:00

His eye-catching buildings have helped define the architecture of post-independence India.

A new exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London - which has been gifted Correa's archive - celebrates his decades-long career. The BBC's took a look with the designer, fellow architect David Adjaye.

Correa, Maki Tapped to Design Aga Khan Center

2008-10-07T09:48:00-04:00

One of the world’s great architecture patrons has hired two distinguished architects—the Indian Modernist Charles Correa and Pritzker Prize winner Fumihiko Maki—to design a $200-million cultural and religious complex in Toronto. ArchRecord | Slideshow