Jaime Correa (architect)

Bonita Springs, Florida

Jaime Correa (born September 19, 1957 in Colombia) is an urban planner, architect, and professor at the University of Miami. Correa is a respected authority in the fields of architecture, town design, and sustainable development. He is the founding principal of Jaime Correa and Associates, the Miami-based design firm, as well as a former founding partner of several other New Urbanism firms in the State of Florida. He held the Knight Professorship in Community Building at the University of Miami for seven consecutive years and is responsible for teaching and coordinating the graduate program in Suburb and Town Design at the School of Architecture, where he is an Associate Professor in Practice.

Publications

Correa is the editor of THE CORREA REPORT, a newsletter developing a new consciousness of traditional sustainability, and the author of "Seven Recipes for the New Urbanism." This book presents an irreverent view of seven magical recipes at the heart of the New Urbanism movement: memory, suburban dysfunction, intellectual precedents, region and ecology, urban form, building type and cultural representation. A number of admonitions and a thrilling professional agenda (cleverly disguised as metaphysical denials and affirmations) are followed by a portfolio of breathtaking projects, drawings and photographs. This is one of the freshest expressions of New Urbanism by one of its most zealous practitioners and scholars.[1]

He also has published a small pamphlet titled: "Self-Sufficient Urbanism: a vision of contraction for the non-distant future." Self-Sufficient Urbanism is the most comprehensive town design mitigation and adaptation plan available in the transitional market of today. It encourages the creation of sustainable urban villages and rural settlements where almost everything needed for daily living is found, produced, created, used, re-used and recycled at walking distance from an identifiable center and in closed economic loops. Self-sufficient Urbanism focuses on the “re-localization” of resources, and on the advocacy and development of technologies attempting to eliminate the existent fossil fuel dependency and reduce the current rate of carbon emissions. His introductory pamphlet reviews the social, economic and design implications of combining the existing predicament of global warming and Peak oil and offers a positive solution of contraction, simplicity and human dignity.[2]

Additionally, he has been a frequent collaborator of the Town Paper, New Towns, the SNU Report, The New Urbanism: Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide, PLACES, the New Urban News, the New Urbanism Council Reports, and other national publications. Correa is a member of the editorial board of “Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Nuevo Urbanismo”, in Mexico. He was a research collaborator for “The New Civic Art: elements of town planning” and the author of the initial Sustainability Module for the SMARTCODE. In a New Towns article by Steve Wright, Correa was characterized as a person who “… approaches each day’s task with the weight of the world on his shoulders then unburdens himself by sharing his discoveries with an engaging demeanor that seeks to make you both friend and follower.” [3]

Awards

Correa has been widely recognized. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South Florida Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for his work as an Urban Designer;[4] he was named a “Sustainability Icon” by Climate Culture International;[5] he received a Point of Light Award from the State of Florida for his reconstruction work with Team Punta Gorda in the City of Punta Gorda, Florida.[6][7] His firm was selected to participate in the New Urbanism Gulf-Coast Reconstruction Charrette after Hurricane Katrina.[8] He is one of the 16 architects and town planners published by Peter Katz in his seminal book: “The New Urbanism: toward an architecture of community”; he is also the recipient of numerous urban planning and architectural awards stretching four continents, including: a Chinese Government Award, the first place at the Marina de Cope competition in Spain, an Honorable Mention shared with Roberto Behar at the Williamsburg Competition; a Progressive Architecture citation for his redevelopment work in Riviera Beach with Mark Schimmenti and his former partners at Dover Kohl; a shared award with OBM International in the International Cities Competition in Dubai for his design leadership and contribution to the new town of The Wave in Oman;[9] a citation to represent the United States in the Bienal de Arquitectura in Chile. Jaime Correa has lectured to students at the Bauhaus/Dessau, Harvard, Notre Dame, M.I.T., Tecnologico de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico, and in countries such as: Argentina, Italy, Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia.[10]

Education

Correa holds a master's degree in City Planning with emphasis in Historic Preservation and a master's degree in Architecture with a certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also received a certificate in Classical Architecture and Medieval Iconography from Cambridge University, in England with the sponsorship of The English Speaking Union of the United States. His bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism was obtained, in 1981, at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia.

Jaime CORREA and Associates

Correa's professional practice includes the design, research, and land use planning of several hundred Inner City Neighborhoods, New Towns, Districts, Corridors, Regions, Blocks, Streets, University Campuses, Informal Urban Areas (shanty towns), Public Spaces, Public Art, etc.[11]

Jaime Correa and Associates, his professional firm in the City of Miami, is a collaborative practice involved in urban design, town planning, sustainability, public civic art, and architectural design projects of many types and scales.[12]

The firm celebrates the simplicity of American life, the uniqueness of place, the engagement of history, the evolution of culture, the distinctiveness of world geographies, the beauty of nature, our own human experience, the potentialities of contemporary and appropriate technologies in both practical and academic arenas, alternative energy, and the end of unbridled globalization.[13]

A Selection of Publications

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