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Charles Correa

1930 - 2015

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Charles Mark Correa (1 September 1930 – 16 June 2015) was an Indian architect and urban planner based in Mumbai, India. Credited with the creation of modern architecture in post-Independent India, he was celebrated for his sensitivity to the needs of the urban poor and for his use of traditional methods and materials. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Correa is the 508th most popular architect (down from 507th in 2019), the 1,027th most popular biography from India (down from 1,023rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Charles Correa ranks 508 out of 518. Before him are Carme Pigem, Luigi Negri, Princess Rajwa Al Hussein, Marco Casagrande, Andrew Jackson Downing, and Charles Bulfinch. After him are Yasmeen Lari, Marion Mahony Griffin, Charles Holden, Max Abramovitz, Elizabeth Diller, and Lesley Lokko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Charles Correa ranks 618. Before him are Norman Podhoretz, Shirley Williams, Joan Mondale, Arlen Specter, Frank Shakespeare, and Luki Botha. After him are Booker Ervin, Stuart Williams, Nicholas F. Brady, Muhal Richard Abrams, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, and Wayne Frye. Among people deceased in 2015, Charles Correa ranks 511. Before him are Peter Pišťanek, Wolfram Wuttke, Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Mikhail Burtsev, Linda Haglund, and Mel Daniels. After him are Raúl Héctor Castro, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Gene Fullmer, Jayne Meadows, Philip Levine, and George Clayton Johnson.

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In India

Among people born in India, Charles Correa ranks 1,027 out of 1,861. Before him are Anu Aggarwal (1969), Juliet Prowse (1936), Asaf Ali (1888), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Dulquer Salmaan (1986), and Reemma Sen (1981). After him are Bhama Srinivasan (1935), Karan Johar (1972), Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1916), Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961), Sushmita Sen (1975), and Deepika Kumari (1994).

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Among ARCHITECTS In India

Among architects born in India, Charles Correa ranks 3. Before him are B. V. Doshi (1927), and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (1565).

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