Charles Correa was an Indian architect, planner, activist, and theoretician who studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Michigan. Charles Correa has been a great promoter of passive techniques in architecture.

INTRODUCTION This book documents over forty years of the work of Charles Correa in Housing and Urbanisation. Instead of active means of air conditioning, Correa preferred smart shading, intelligent use of building orientation, controlled breeze and methods to enhance heat absorption abilities of masonry. Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 photographs, drawings and original sketches, it brings 2. Housing & Urbanisation - CHARLES CORREA “Housing & Urbanisation” is available for reference and purchase at UDRI Resource Centre. He discouraged the use of mechanical methods for heating or cooling the buildings. Posts about housing written by Charles Correa Foundation. Charles Correa Foundation Education, Research & Development on Human Settlements 169, St. Sebastian Chapel Road, Fontainhas Panaji, Goa 403001 India +91 832 2220058 connect@charlescorreafoundat… Official web site of the Mumbai based architect. Registered participants will be given certificates from the Charles Correa Foundation additionally, participants will get credits and be able to take back and use the drawings they have made during the workshop.

He taught and lectured at many universities, both in India and abroad, including MIT, Harvard University, the University of London, and Cambridge University, where he was Nehru Professor. 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. Charles Correa (1930–2015) was one of the most important architects of post-Independence India.

1. Following this, he completed his Masters in Architecture at the Massachusetts institute for Technology, USA in 1955. Ismaili Centre, Toronto, 2014 - Charles Correa's last work is an architectural interpretation of Islam, taking the Polar North route, its shortest path, to face Mecca. Extensive project descriptions with photographs, biography and bibliography. Charles Correa, considered one of India's greatest architects, is celebrated for his post-war work in India in which he connects modernism with local traditions.