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Last week an exhibition celebrating the work of Indian architect Charles Correa opened at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The wide-ranging show covers Correa’s most significant buildings, including the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Museum, numerous Indian housing projects and his most recent completion, the Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. It coincides with Correa’s gifting of his archive, more than 6, drawings, to the RIBA Library. He says: ‘It had to be London. It’s the liveliest place for discussions on architecture.’

Correa’s practice of architecture, which began in the s, tracks India’s emergence as a nation state and is chiefly concerned with how cities and buildings can improve the lives of residents.

Much of what Correa says on these matters is unexpected: cities should be high-density, but they should also be low-rise. ‘You can save space by building high, but you lose that connection to the ground,’ he adds. The architect too, must always be careful in how they design for others. ‘We have a responsibility to arrive at a consensus,’ he explains, during a tour of the David Adjaye-designed exhibition. Especially w

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