TY  - BOOK
AU  - Correa,Charles
AU  - Frampton,Kenneth
TI  - Charles Correa
SN  - 0500092680
U1  - 724.6 21
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Correa, Charles,
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - India
KW  - Architecture and climate
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Designs and plans
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The work of Charles Correa / by Kenneth Frampton --Blessings from the sky / by Charles Correa -- Projects -- Appendices
N2  - 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
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