Architect, planner, activist and theoretician, Charles Correa is one of the few contemporary architects who addresses not only issues of architecture, but of low-income housing and urban planning as well. His work covers a wide range, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur and the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh, to housing projects and townships in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. He was Chief Architect for ‘Navi Mumbai’ the new city of 2 million people across the harbour from Bombay, and was appointed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as the first Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanisation.

Correa has taught at several universities, both in India and abroad, and currently spends part of his time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Farwell Bemis Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning. He has been awarded the highest honours of his profession, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Praemium Imperiale of Japan, and the Gold Medals of the UIA and the RIBA

EDUCATION

1939 – 1946	St. Xavier’s High School, Bombay
1946 – 1948	St. Xavier’s College, University of Bombay
1949 – 1953	University of Michigan (B.Arch)
1953 – 1955	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Arch)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1964 – 2015	Fellow, Indian Institute of Architects
1974 – 2015	Council of Architecture, India

HONORARY FELLOWSHIPS

1979	American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC
1985	Academie d’ Architecture Francais, Paris
1987	International Academy of Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria
1990	United Architects of the Philippines, Manila
1992	Finnish Institute of Architects, Helsinki, Finland
1993	Royal Institute of British Architects, London
1993	American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass
1997	Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Dublin
1998	American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1999	Trinidad Institute of Architects, Jamaica
2002	Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1958 – to date	In private practice in Bombay
1964 – 1965	Prepared alternate Master Plan (with Pravina Mehta & Shirish Patel) proposing city of New Bombay
1969 – 1971	Invited by the Government of Peru and the UN to design PREVI low–cost housing project in Lima
1971 – 1974	Chief Architect to CIDCO (Government of Maharashtra) for development of New Bombay
1975 – 1989	Board of Directors, CIDCO (New Bombay)
1975 – 1978	Consulting Architect, Government of Karnataka
1975 – 1983	Chairman, Housing Urban Renewal & Ecology Board, Bombay Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (BMRDA)
1975 – 1994	Executive Committee, BMRDA
1985 – 1988	Chairman, National Commission on Urbanisation, Government of India
1985 – 1986	Chairman, Committee for Textile Mills in Bombay, Government of Maharashtra
1996 – 1998	President, World Society of EKISTICS, Athens, Greece
1999 – to date	Consulting Architect, Government of Goa

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS & COMMITTEES

1975 – 1978	Member, Bangalore Urban Arts Commission
1975 – 1984	Western Board, Reserve Bank of India
1975 – 1989	Board of Directors, CIDCO (New Bombay)
1976	Consultant to Director–General of UN HABITAT Conference, Vancouver
1976	Consultant to UN Secretary–General for planning of, new capital of Tanzania
1977– 1986	Member, Steering Committee, Aga Khan Award for Architecture
1980 – 1984	Member, Urban Conservation Committee, Hyderabad Urban Development Authority
1981 – 1988	Member, Board of Advisors, MIMAR
1982 – 1985	Member, Economic & Planning Advisory Council to the Chief Minister, Government of Karnataka
1983	Founder Member, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)
1984	Founder Member, Trust for Urban Design Research Institute, Bombay
1984 – 1986	Chairman, Committee for “VISTARA: The Architecture of India”
1996	Member, Secretary–General’s Advisory Group for HABITAT II Conference, Istanbul
1999 – to date	Steering Committee, Aga Khan Award for Architecture
2005 – to date	Chairman, Delhi Urban Arts Commission

JURIES OF ARCHITECTURAL PRIZES / COMPETITIONS

1976	Pahalavi National Library Competition, Iran.
1988 – 1991	Master Jury, Aga Khan Award for Architecture
1989	Kuwait Pearls Competition, Kuwait Real Estate Company.
1991	Chairman of Jury, Samarkand Competition, Uzbekistan
1992 – 1998	Pritzker Prize for Architecture
1993	National Landmark for State of Kuwait
1993	Juma Al–Majid Centre for Culture & Heritage, Dubai
1994	AIA / Otis Housing Competition, Washington DC
1998	Jury Member, National Housing Competition, China
1997	Chairman of Jury, New Constitutional Court, Government of South Africa.
1998- to date	Prins Claus Awards, Netherlands.
1999	New Campus of American University at Cairo
2000	Venice Biennale Jury, Venice – June
2002- to date	‘Praemium Imperiale Asian Nomination Committee’, Tokyo

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

1962	Albert Bemis Professor, MIT, Cambridge, Mass – Fall
1974	Sir Banister Fletcher Professor, University of London – May
1974	Harvard, Cambridge – Fall
1976	J.J. School of Architecture, University of Bombay
1979	Arthur Q. Davis Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans – Fall
1981	MIT, Cambridge, Mass – Spring
1982	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – Spring
1984	Columbia University, New York – Spring
1985-1986	Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, Cambridge University, U.K.
1987	Harvard, Cambridge, Mass – Spring
1987	National University of Singapore – July
1989	MIT, Cambridge, Mass – Spring
1989	MIT, Cambridge. Mass – Fall
1992	Visiting Aga Khan Professor, MIT, Cambridge – Fall
1993	Tong–ji University, Shanghai – April
1995	Washington University, St. Louis, Miss – Spring
1998	MIT, Cambridge, Mass – Fall
2000	Friedman Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA – Spring
2000- to date	A. Farwell Bemis Professor, MIT, Cambridge

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