•CHARLES CORREA WAS BORN IN HYDERABAD, INDIA IN 1930 •BORN INTO A MIDDLE-CLASS CATHOLIC FAMILY IN BOMBAY •BECAME FASCINATED WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AS A CHILD •AT MICHIGAN 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 •— ARCHITECT, PLANNER, ACTIVIST AND THEORETICIAN, AN INTERNATIONAL LECTURER AND TRAVELER. EDUCATION HE STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AFTER WHICH HE ESTABLISHED A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN BOMBAY IN1958. • 1946-1948 INTER-SCIENCE. ST. XAVIER’S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY • 1949-1955 B.ARCH., UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. • 1956-19578M.ARCH., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. EXPERINCES •1955-1958 PARTNER WITH G.M. BHUTA ASSOCIATES •1964-1965 PREPARED MASTER PLAN PROPOSING TWIN CITY ACROSS THE HARBOR FROM BOMBAY. •1969-1971 INVITED BY THE GOVT. OF PERU •1971-1975 CHIEF ARCHITECT TO CIDCO •1975-1976 CONSULTANT TO UN SECRETORY-GENERAL FOR HABITAT SHADY INNER COURTYARDS AND HUGE ARBORES. (E.G. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF ELECTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA ECIL, 1965 -68, IN HYDERABAD) • CORREA WORKS INTENSIVELY ON THE CONCEPTION OF CITY DISTRICTS AND WHOLE CITIES, ESPECIALLY FOR FAMILIES WITH A LOW INCOME. •CORREA REJECTS THE ANONYMOUS HIGH-RISE HOUSING SCHEMES IN FAVORS OF LOWER, CLEVERLY DESIGNED COMPLEX SPLIT-LEVEL HOUSES ALLOW FOR INTENSIFIED UTILIZATION OF SPACE AT THE SAME TIME. • S HOWS NEW WAYS TO COUNTRIES WITH INCREASING DENSITY OF POPULATION. •CHARLES CORREA IS A MAJOR FIGURE IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AROUND THE WORLD. • ALL OF HIS WORK - FROM THE CAREFULLY DETAILED MEMORIAL MAHATMA GANDHI MEMORIAL MUSEUM AT THE SABARMATI ASHRAM IN AHMEDABAD TO CONGITIVE SCIENCE CENTRE IN BOSTON. •PIONEER IN FESIGNING LOW COST SHELTER HOUSES. •IN 1984, HE FOUNDED THE PRESTIGIOUS URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN BOMBAY WHICH TO THIS DAY IS DEDICATED TO THE PROTECTION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF URBAN COMMUNITIES. •THE BUILDINGS ARE GROUPED AROUND A TERRACE AND ITS CENTRAL WATER BASIN IN VARYING RECTANGULAR FORMS - THE OPEN MIDDLE. IMPORTANT THAT THE HOUSES ARE OPEN TO THE SKY . PHILOSOPHIES FEW PHILOSOPHIES IN HIS VAST BODY OF WORK: • INCREMENTALLY • PLURALISM • PARTICIPATION • INCOME GENERATION • EQUITY • OPEN-TO-SKY SPACE • DISAGGREGATION. CONCLUSION FROM HIS PHILOSIPIES • CHARLES CORREA THUS BELIEVES THAT ARCHITECTURE IS NOT JUST A REINFORCEMENT OF EXISTING VALUES BUT SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL. • ARCHITECTURE VARIES DEPENDING UPON THE NEEDS OF THE INHABITANTS AS WELL AS POPULATION DENSITY. • CLIMATIC CONDITIONS HAVE A DIRECT EFFECT ON THE TECHNICAL DESIGN OF HIS BUILDINGS , THUS SHOULD BE ACCORDINGLY DESIGNED. CORREA AS AN ARCHITECT:- INTRODUCTION:- BELAPUR HOUSING BEING THE ONE PROJECT WHERE HE HAS LITERALLY USED THESE PRINCIPALS.