Charles Correa was India’s greatest gift to the world of architecture- a visionary, an urban planner and an architect par excellence.
“A hundred times have i thought new York to be a catastrophe, a fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, the world renowned architect in this quote best explains how architecture is actually a very consuming art, it has the mystery, the drama and above all a functionality that makes it an integral part of our lives.
India boasts of many illustrious names where architecture is concerned, but Charles Correa is a name that resonates with some of the finest projects that we have ever seen which include the latest Ismaili Centre in Toronto completed in 2014.
This story is from the July/August 2016 edition of The Tiles of India.
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