Early life Charles Correa, a
Roman Catholic of Goan descent, was born on 1 September 1930 in
Secunderabad. He began his higher studies at
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He went on to study at the
University of Michigan (1949–53) where
Buckminster Fuller was a teacher, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953–55) where he obtained his master's degree.
Career In 1958, Charles Correa established his own professional practice in Mumbai. His first significant project was the Mahatma Gandhi Sangrahalaya (
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial) at
Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad (1958–1963), followed by the
Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Bhopal (1967). In 1961-1966, he designed his first high-rise building, the Sonmarg apartments in Mumbai. On the
National Crafts Museum in New Delhi (1975–1990), he introduced "the rooms open to the sky", his systematic use of courtyards. In the
Jawahar Kala Kendra (Jawahar Arts Centre) in Jaipur (1986–1992), he makes a structural hommage to
Jai Singh II. Later, he invited the British artist
Howard Hodgkin for the outside design of the
British Council in Delhi (1987–1992). which shared the site with the
Aga Khan Museum designed by
Fumihiko Maki, and the Champalimaud Foundation Centre in Lisbon, inaugurated by the Portuguese President
Aníbal Cavaco Silva on 5 October 2010.
Final years He died on 16 June 2015 in
Mumbai following a brief illness. ==Work==