Jaime Correa is a respected authority in the fields of architecture, town design, and sustainable development. He is responsible for teaching and coordinating the world-renowned program in Suburb and Town Design at the University of Miami, where he is an Associate Professor in Practice. He has been widely recognized and published. He is one of the 16 architects and town planners published by Peter Katz in his seminal book on “The New Urbanism: toward an architecture of community”; he is also the recipient of numerous urban planning and architectural awards stretching four continents, including: the first Chinese Government Award to an American design firm outside China, first place at the Marina de Cope competition in Spain, a Progressive Architecture citation for his redevelopment work in Riviera Beach, an International Cities award in Dubai for his contribution to the Oman government, and a citation to represent the United States in one of the Bienales de Arquitectura in Chile.

Correa has lectured at the Bauhaus/Dessau, Harvard, Notre Dame, Mexico, Argentina, Italy, Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia. He holds a Master degree in City Planning with emphasis in Historic Preservation and a Master degree in Architecture with a certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a certificate in Classical Architecture and Medieval Iconography from Cambridge University, in England. He is a frequent collaborator of the Town Paper, New Towns, the SNU Report, the New Urbanism Comprehensive Report and Best Practices Guide, the New Urban News, and other national publications. He is the current editor of THE CORREA REPORT® on sustainability and the environment.

Correa's professional practice, Jaime Correa & Associates, includes the design, research, and coding of more than one hundred Inner City Neighborhoods, New Towns, Districts, Corridors, Regions, Blocks and Streets, University Campuses, etc. In a recent article by Steve Wright, he 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.”