A photo essay exploring Correa’s collaborative projects with artists, highlighting how murals integrate with his architecture.
As a contemporary architect, Correa’s architecture is infused with various forms of art. One such relationship is between his architecture and mural paintings. “It started first when we moved into CCA office. We didn’t know what to do with a protruding column. The usual thing is to hide it in a cupboard or perhaps make a false ceiling, but then we thought it seemed like a tree so why not celebrate it and paint it like a tree? That is what we did and this experience we carried over to other projects.” Correa always believed that architecture must address issues beyond the purely empirical and functional, and instead tackle meaning and symbolism in new and profound ways.
Photo: copyright, Charles Correa Associates, courtesy Charles Correa Foundation