Charles Correa (1985)

Inscribed by Charles Correa to fellow architects MJ Long and Colin St John Wilson: “To MJ and Sandy – with many thanks for giving it to him!”. Cantacuzino explores a major theme in Correa’s work: design for a warm climate using ‘open-to-sky’ spaces – open shaded structures as opposed to boxes or totally enclosed volumes. He also looks at Correa’s long standing involvement in low-cost housing and ideas on creating community, using clusters of buildings and social outdoor space. In discussing Correa’s urban planning work, such as in Bombay, Cantacuzino highlights Correa’s idea of re-structuring the city, and his attitude to change and the role of the design professional as an agent for such change. Condition: covers a little worn and marked. Spotting to top edge of text block and light rubbing to extremities of boards, otherwise very good.