By Ritika Banerjee, Aila Bandagi and Bimal Thankachan | Mentor: Bina Paul The ninth screening, ‘Beyond Four Walls’, will take place on Friday, 8 October, 2021. A film that explores the relationship between access to livelihood and housing, through a comparison between Parry's Corner and Kannagi Nagar, two neighbourhoods in Chennai. Language: Tamil with English […]

By Mukul Haloi and Pooja Kalita | Mentor: Tarun Bhartiya The tenth screening, ‘Day One’, will take place on Friday, 29 October, 2021. Debajit, a young man from a village in Lower Assam arrives in Guwahati with the hope of a better livelihood. The city unfolds to him as a space etched on a discursive […]

  INVITATION Nagari 2021 Award Ceremony 6:30 PM IST | 20.12.2021 We would be delighted to have you join us online for the Award Ceremony for The Nagari Short Film Competition. The event is scheduled at 6:30 PM IST on Monday, December 20. Register now! 'People and Livelihoods in Urban India' This year, Nagari addresses […]

Join us for an evening dedicated to the memory of our founder, Charles Correa, on his 92nd birth anniversary. We start with a panel discussion with three of his clients, followed by the Charles Correa Gold Medal Award Ceremony 2022. In conversation with Nondita Correa Mehrotra are three clients for Correa’s projects, clients who he […]

We open the conference by paying tribute to Charles Correa and his interest in climate appropriate design. He wrote extensively on this subject, especially during the energy crisis of the 1970s, and coined the phrase ‘Form Follows Climate’. We see this as a provocation, a call to architects and designers to find solutions to sustainable, […]

This session brings together a collection of buildings from 4 different practices, with systems that are not standard models of practice but instead adapted to create a unique microclimate, through technical innovations and ecologically sound climate control. ‘System Modulations’ presents transformative approaches to energy-passive and energy-active buildings. The session has presentations by Richard Hassell (WOHA), […]

The session on ‘Material Exploration’ looks at issues of sustainable construction materials, frugality of use of materials, and zero carbon materials, and how all these are considered in the design of buildings. Christopher Lee and Kapil Gupta (Serie Architects), John Ochsendorf (MIT) and Solano Benitez (Jopoi De Arquitectura) will present their work, and Heinrich Wolff […]

This final session will look at how the form of the building itself responds to climate, often influenced by the vernacular, though transformed in a more contemporary idiom. Nelson Mota (TU Delft) will present his research on the influence of Portuguese vernacular on the work of Alvaro Siza. Other presentations will be by Rahul Mehrotra […]

The Charles Correa Foundation invites you to the screening of selected films from the anthology of the Nagari Short Film Competition. Following are the films from the previous renditions that will be screened: Nagari 2020 - Housing Adequacy in Urban India A City Within a City Udta Banaras Beyond Four Walls Nagari 2021 - People […]

Registrations for the Nagari Short Film Competition are open.

As part of Charles Correa Gold Medal 2023, join us for a panel discussion on Architecture Thesis Project - What can they say, what can they do? Do join us for a panel discussion on the present and future of the graduation thesis projects at architecture schools in India. The discussion will be led by […]

We are LIVE! The Charles Correa Foundation relaunches the Charles Correa Archives website - a digital platform that consists of over 15,000 drawings, photos, articles, and essays by Charles Correa. The website is available for subscription to architecture colleges, offices, and individuals around the world. Subscribe Now!

SAVE THE DATE! Announcing CHARLES CORREA GOLD MEDAL AWARD CEREMONY 2023 Date: May 09, 2024 Time: 6:00 pm IST Venue: Online The online event will consist of a lecture followed by the Award Ceremony for the Charles Correa Gold Medal 2023, awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate Architectural Thesis from colleges across India. Stay tuned […]

‘Like the trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, so over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes […]

We are pleased to invite you to join us for the Charles Correa Gold Medal 2024 Award Ceremony, an evening celebrating the most outstanding undergraduate Architectural Thesis from colleges across […]

Charles Correa Foundation invites you to the book launch of 'Citizen Charles' by Mustansir Dalvi, at our office in Panjim on the 13th of February from 3:00-4:30pm. The book launch […]

We are pleased to invite you to join us for the Charles Correa Gold Medal 2025 Award Ceremony, an evening celebrating the most outstanding undergraduate Architectural Thesis from colleges across […]