"The Language of Architecture" in a Lecture at the BA
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Alexandria—the BA Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center (Alex-Med) will organize on Thursday, 8 March 2007, a lecture entitled "The Language of Architecture" by Charles Correa, an Indian architect, planner, activist, theoretician and a fundamental figure in the world-wide panorama of the contemporary architecture.
The work of Charles Correa covers a wide range, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati Ashram, to the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh - as well as housing projects and townships in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. He was Chief Architect for 'Navi Mumbai' the new city of 2 million people, across the harbor from Bombay, and in 1985 Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization.
Correa has taught at universities both in India and abroad, including Harvard, Penn, and Cambridge (U.K), and is at present Farwell Bemis Professor at MIT. He has received numerous honours and awards, including an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Michigan (1980), the RIBA Gold Medal (1984), the UIA Gold Medal (1990), the Praemium Imperiale of Japan (1994), and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1998).
The lecture will start at 19:00 hrs. at the BA Conference Center.