Robert ‘Fellowes’ Chisholm Memorial Lecture

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An architect, a planner, an activist and a theoretician — Padma Vibhushan Charles Correa is globally renowned for his work in urban issue and low cost housing. His works in India shows a careful development, understanding and adaptation of modernism to a non-western culture. All his works from the planning of metro cities to the carefully detailed memorial to Mahatma Gandhi at the Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad have placed special emphasis on prevailing resources, energy and climate as major determinants in the ordering of space.

In a career spanning over five decades, Correa’s planning and community projects have always sought new and eloquent ways to express the cultures in which we live. He was the Chief Architect for the planning of ‘Navi Mumbai’ and appointed the first Chairman of National Commission on Urbanisation by the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He has been awarded the Aga Khan award for Vidhan Bhavan in Bhopal, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, The UIA award and the Premium Imperiale of Japan. In 1984, he founded the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai which is dedicated to protection of built environments and improvement of urban communities. With an array of accolades and social initiative Charles is a legend that has had architecture see new frontiers in the past decades globally.

In the lecture Charles Correa takes through this profound journey of his works. In his narrative he shares stories that overlap in his architecture practice and life. His personal discoveries, inventions, inspiration and the unique patterning of aspirations of the masses are the few highlights of this lecture.

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