Jaime Correa
Teaching Area:
Architecture and Urban Design, Theory and History, New Urbanism, Sustainability, Rome Program, Drawing, Travel and Exchange Programs, Philosophy and Comparative Cultures
Education:
Bachelor of Architecture in Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1981
Master of Architecture in Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Master of City Planning in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Certificate in Classical Architecture and Medieval Iconography, University of Cambridge, 1997
Master of Metaphysical Science, University of Metaphysics, 2009
Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Religions, University of Sedona (non-secular degree)
Licensure:
Licensed Architect in Colombia, South America
Teaching and Administrative Experience:
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Coordinator: Master in Urban Design, 2010-Present
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Associate Professor in Practice, 2009-Present
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Rome Program Faculty, 2004-Present
Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Queretaro, Mexico, Invited Graduate Guest Lecturer, 2008-Present
University of Miami, International Programs, Coordinator Effat University Exchange Program, Summer 2011
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Coordinator: Master in Suburb and Town Design, 1994-2010
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Knight Professor in Community Building, 2000-2008
St. Andrews University, Invited Guest Leader for Informal Urbanism, Bahamas Academic Charrette, 2008
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Assistant Professor in Practice, 1994-2000
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Lecturer, 1992-1994
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Coordinator: Mechanical Drawing, 1994-1999
University of Miami, School of Architecture, Coordinator: Freehand Drawing, 1999-2001
University of Miami, Continuing Studies Program, Faculty Leader Travel Programs to Spain, Czech Republic, Mexico, Croatia, Sicily, England, Germany, Argentina, etc. (on-going Programs)
University of Miami, School of Continuing Studies, Faculty Leader Travel Programs to New Orleans, New York, San Juan, etc. (on-going Programs)
Participant of Numerous Academic Committees, 1992-Present
Guest Lecturer at Numerous National and International Universities
Professional Experience:
Jaime Correa and Associates (2003-Present) in Miami. Co-founder of several companies including: Dover Correa Kohl Cockshutt Valle aka: Dover Kohl and Partners, Correa Valle Valle, The Office for Urban Counterprojects, and the Atelier for Architecture and Urbanism. Collaborations with: Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, Moule and Polyzoides, Leon Krier, OBM International, Seth Harry and Associates, Juan Pablo Rosales, and various other national and international firms. Professor Correa maintains an independent design consulting practice with over 25 years of experience; as a seasoned New Urbanism Advocate, his work focuses on traditional architecture and urban design.
Academic and Professional Honors:
Winner of several Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards including professional and academic work in 2009 and, 2010. Main Speaker at the Albany Roundtable on Design. Academic Editorial Reviewer of Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, in Mexico. Recipient of the English Speaking Union Scholarship Award. Academic Reviewer and Session Organizer for Congress for the New Urbanism. National CNU Awards Jury Member CNU XIX. Recipient of the Canin Faculty Award. Guest Editor at the Yoga Research Foundation. Recipient of AIA Urban Design Award and National Student Chapter Research Award. Winner of various national and international awards including: The Florida Point of Light Award in the City of Punta Gorda, several American Planning Association Awards, participant at the Bienal de Arquitectura en Chile, Student Mentorship Award at the University of Miami, Honorable Mention at the Williamsburg Competition and La Serena in Chile. Lecturer at Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Bauhaus-Dessau in Germany, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia, among others.
Publications:
The New Palladians: modernity and sustainability for 21st century architecture
Collaborator
Authors: Lucien Steil and Alireza Sangharchi, 2010
Seven Recipes for the New Urbanism
Author, 2009
Vias Publicas: sobre el diseno objetivo y la realidad
Author
Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. No. 6-7, December 2009
Autosuficiencia y Patrones de Desarrollo
Author
Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. No. 5., August 2009
Self-sufficient Urbanism: a vision of contraction for the non-distant future
Author, 2008
Urban Morphology Examples
Author
Journal of Urbanism: International research on place making and urban sustainability
Vol. 1, Number 1, March 2008
Transectual Transgressions
Author
PLACES Magazine, Papers, Projects, Vol 6. No. 6, 2005
The New Civic Art
Collaborator
Authors: Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Robert Almidana, 2004
The New American Suburbanism: New Urbanist theory and practice
Collaborator
Author: John Dutton, 2002
Ethnic Enclaves in the Urbanism of America
Author
The Town Paper, Vol. 6 No. 1., Spring 2004
Cliches and Misdemeanors: the architecture of the New Urbanism
Author
The Town Paper, Vol 6 No. 2., Summer 2004
The New Pragmatists: GenXers and their quest for authentic urbanism
Author
New Town – the publication about traditional neighborhoods, Fall 2004
The Power of Ugliness: terrorizing the American landscape
Author
New Town – the publication about traditional neighborhoods, Winter 2004
New Inner-City Urbanism: one building at a time
Author
The SNU Review – a critical review of New Urbanism, Vol 1. No. 1., Fall 2004
A Guide to the New Urbanism in Florida
Work by Jaime Correa and Associates and CVV reviewed.
Florida International University and Congress for the New Urbanism, 2003 and 2002
The New Urbanism: towards an architecture of community
A professional review of the work of Duany and Plater-Zyberk, Polyzoides, Calthorpe, Dover-Correa-Koh-Cockshutt-Valle, etc.
Peter Katz and Stratagem Consultants, Editors, (McGraw Hill, 1993)
Community Service
Professor Correa provides pro-bono services to NGO’s, municipalities, and institutions. He has been a design leader for over 150 charrettes. His work with the Knight Program in Community Building and the Center for Urban and Community Design has been published and implemented with great success. He holds sponsored urban design studios for communities which cannot afford design services. He has participated as a Team Leader in the 2010 Haiti Charrette and in the Gulfcoast Reconstruction Charrette sponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism. He has been a Chairman of the Board of Architecture for Gables Estates and Chairman of Empowered Youth, in Coral Gables, and a founding member of the Design Review Committee in the City of D’Iberville, Mississippi. He volunteers at Habitat for Humanity and at the “Feed the Homeless Program” with Unity on the Bay; he has served as a Spanish Scholar and Guest Editor at the Yoga Research Foundation, in Miami.
