Held in Mumbai, India, the two-day event explored Charles Correa’s role as an architect, planner and cultural thinker in post-independence India.

by Akash Singh I STIRworld I Published on: Oct 19, 2024

Mumbai—Charles Correa’s beloved city, described by him as “a great city, but a terrible place”—set the stage for the sixth edition of the Z-axis conference, organised by the Charles Correa Foundation (CCF) on October 12 and 13, 2024. Held at the NCPA experimental theatre, the conference celebrated Correa’s multifaceted legacy and explored his projects, philosophies, writings and advocacy for urbanisation. Correa, widely acclaimed as a visionary of post-independence modernist architecture in India, demonstrated an innate curiosity in numerous disciplines which imperceptibly reflected in his expansive repertoire. Spanning six sessions, the conference brought together 21 speakers from diverse fields to reflect on Correa’s protean disposition. The overarching theme captured Correa’s contribution to India’s post-independent search for identity and his ideas on urbanisation, with one of his quotes shining through, “You cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture at one hand and politics into another.”

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