Title & Author:

Form follows climate / [presented by] Charles Correa (Charles Correa Associates).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (19 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Charles Correa -- The Red Fort, Agra: View & Section -- ECIL Admin Building, Hyderabad Plan & Section -- ECIL Office Building. Exteriors -- ECIL Office Building. Central Courtyard -- ECIL Office Building. Light In Central Courtyard -- Tara Group Housing, New Delhi. Section & View To Central Space -- Tara Group Housing, New Delhi. Plan & Central Space -- Tara Group Housing, New Delhi. Exterior Views -- Tara Group Housing, New Delhi. Exterior Views -- Parekh House, Ahmedabad: Sections & Plans -- Parekh House, Ahmedabad -- Kanchenjunga Apartments, Bombay. Typical Sections -- Kanchenjunga Apartments, Bombay.Section & View -- Kanchenjunga Apartments, Bombay. Close-Up -- Kanchenjunga Apartments, Bombay. Plans & Room Interior -- Kanchenjunga Apartments, Bombay. General View -- Sections: Padmanabhapuram Palace; Philippine House; Colonial Bungalow -- Beach Hotel In Kovalam, Kerala -- Beach Hotel In Kovalam, Kerala A Terrace For Each Room -- Beach Hotel In Kovalam, Kerala: A Typical Room -- Gandhi Memorial Museum, Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad: Model & Interior View -- Gandhi Memorial Museum, Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad: Light & Shade.

Summary:

Best known for his planning proposals for New Bombay, Charles Correa has practised architecture in India since 1958, and has received many awards and international recognition for his work. In the large variety of his projects there has always been a special emphasis on the crucial issue of climate control. To build in India, he says in his talk, is to respond to climate, as it has never been possible to squander the kind of money and energy necessary to air-condition a building under the tropical sun. He sees this as an advantage because it means that the building itself, through its configuration, must provide the controls that the user needs. This kind of climate control involves the section, plan, shape, and very heart of the building; even generating new lifestyles in the necessary inventiveness. He uses examples of his own work as well as ancient designs to illustrate the points he makes. He thinks that the energy crisis could well produce a response to climate that will give architecture the structure it so urgently needs.

Subject:

Architectural design India.
Design architectural Inde.
Architectural design.
India.

Added entries:

Correa, Charles, 1930-2015, narrator.