Jencks Award: Visions Built 2009 - Charles Correa

Theory into Practice This year’s award winner, Charles Correa, discusses his work and issues of architecture, low-income housing and urban planning in India. Correa is one of India’s pre-eminent architects and widely recognised for his outstanding contribution to architecture, having received the Royal Gold Medal in 1984. He is also a planner, activist, teacher and theoretician whose projects include, the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, Ahmedabad, the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh and housing projects and townships in Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Chaired by Charles Jencks, designer, author and broadcaster. RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD £8, £5 concession to book please visit www.architecture.com/programmes