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Charles Correa

In the late 20th century, many of the world's greatest architectural challenges lie not in the West but in what India's best-known architect, Charles Correa, is happy to call the Third World. The architectural and urban planning solutions proposed by this brilliant Western-educated architect, who so effectively combines traditional spiritual and symbolic themes with the environmental and cultural demands of a modernizing society, have gained him a global following. His projects, fully documented in this comprehensive and superbly illustrated volume, have been as wide ranging as they are impressive: low-rise, low-cost, high-density housing, entire townships and extensions to major cities, but also many individual schemes and buildings, from the Gandhi Museum (1958-63) — 'one of the most compelling national monuments erected anywhere in this century', according to Kenneth Frampton — to the National Crafts Museum in New Delhi (1975-90). In addition to the architect's own presentation of his ideas, Kenneth Frampton provides an overall assessment of his achievement, and this model study of an increasingly influential figure is completed by a detailed chronology and bibliography.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780500092682
  • Genres
  • architecture
  • Release date
  • 1997