Charles Correa: a Place in the Shade: The New Landscape & Other Essays (Paperback) - Common

Charles Correa's "A Place in the Shade" explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country's often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as a "model of the cosmos." This provocative and eminently readable collection of essays argues that the country's habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and...