ABOUT HIM:
- He was born into a middle-class Catholic family in Bombay
- Became fascinated with the principles of design as a child
- When studying at Michigan there were two professors who influenced him the most – Walter Salders and Buckminister Fuller.
- Kevin lynch , then in the process of developing his themes for image of the city triggered Correa’s interest in urban issues
- ‘India of those days was a different place, it was a brand-new country, there was so much hope; India stimulated me.’
- He became an Architect, planner, activist and theoretician, an international lecturer and traveler.
- India’s first man of architecture has a very simple philosophy: “Unless you believe in what you do, it becomes … boring,”
- 1946-1948 inter-science. St. Xavier’s college, university of Bombay
- 1949-1955 B.Arch., University of Michigan.
- 1953-1955 M.Arch., Massachusetts institute of technology.
Like most architects of his generation he has been influenced by Le Corbusier , but by his response to the Mediterranean sun with his grand sculptural decisions he believes that Corbusier’s influence in the colder climates has not been beneficial because these heroic gestures had to withdraw into defensible space, into mechanically heated (and cooled) interiors of the building.
On way back to Bombay in 1955 – saw the Jaoul House (le Corbusier) in Paris under construction
‘I was absolutely knocked out . It was a whole new world way beyond anything being taught in America at that time .then I saw Chandigarh and his buildings in Ahmedabad . They seemed the only way to build.”
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