Narendra Dengle (born 1948) is an architect, academician, and author based in Pune. His architectural designs have been a part of VISTARA in Paris as part of the Festival of India exhibition in 1986, and State of Architecture Exhibition in Mumbai in 2017-18. He has partnered and worked on various academic and architectural projects with

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, Vasanth Kamath, Romi Khosla, M.N. Ashish Ganju, and Kamu Iyer.

Architectural practice and design

Dengle began practicing architecture in 1974. In the same year, he founded a partnership firm with Vasant Kamath and Romi Khosla called The GRUP (Group for Rural & Urban Planning), in which

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was an employee. From 1983 to 1987, he was the resident director of SEMAC(I) Private Limited in the Sultanate of Oman. He is the Principal of the firm Narendra Dengle and Associates. He has designed residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings, many of which have received critical appraisal and awards. His awards include

HUDCO The Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India in India. History This institution came into existence on 25 ...

low cost housing in 1975 and the first prize for the Archaeological Museum in Srinagar in 2000. Among his notable architectural projects are the Ramakrishna Math (2002), Maharshi Karve Museum (2007), and a bird observatory (2019), all in Pune.

Academic career

Narendra Dengle taught at the

School of Planning and Architecture The Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) are a group of autonomous public institutes of higher education under Ministry of Education, Government of India. They were established with the objectives of providing quality Architecture and p ...

from 1974 to 1981. He has been the Design Chair at institutions includin
KRVIA
(2006-2011), and also the Academic Chair at the

Goa College of Architecture Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to th ...

(2012-2014). He has been closely associated as a faculty member with the Building Beauty Programme at the Sant'Anna Institute in Sorento. Dengle continues to teach and be on the juries of several schools of architecture and design. Dengle was one of the founders of the Forum for Exchange and Excellence in Design (FEED), a public platform where he interviewed eminent architects from across India from 1999 to 2006. A selection of interviews and writings eventually resulted in the book ''Dialogues with Indian Master Architects,'' which features

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, Hasmukh Patel, Balkrishna V Doshi, Uttam C Jain and

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Selected publications

Books

* ''Dialogues with Indian Master Architects'' (Mumbai: Marg, 2015). * (with M.N. Ashish Ganju) ''The Discovery of Architecture: A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality'' (New Delhi: GREHA, 2013). * ''झरोका'' (नाशिक: ब्रेन टॉनिक प्रकाशन गृह, २००७).

Essays

* ''"'' Muni Ganju: A Wise Man of Indian Architecture."
Journal of Landscape Architecture
' 66 (2021):11-14. *"दृक-कलेविषयी." ''सजग'' (जुलै-सप्टेंबर २०२१): ६२-७०. *"Bhan’s Rock Garden." ''Ravindra Bhan'' (New Delhi: Landscape Architecture, 2020): 22-23. *"Existential Issues, Memory, and Freedom."
Journal of Landscape Architecture
' 62 (2020): 34-45. *"Foreword." ''Architecture of Nothingness'' (London: Routledge, 2019): 13-16. *"Friends for Life: memories and associations of places and nature."
Journal of Landscape Architecture
' 57 (2019): 49-53. * "कैलासचे वास्तुशिल्प." ''चौफेर'' (दिवाळी २०१८): ४०-५१. *"कलाजाणीव." ''साधना'' (२९ जुलै २०१७): १८-२२. *"Achyut Kanvinde and Modernism in India''." Achyut Kanvinde Ᾱkār'' (New Delhi: Niyogi, 2017): 192-199. *"Rejuvenation and Reincarnation: history as a means of living the present."
Journal of Landscape Architecture
' 53 (2017): 94-97. *"Urbanization, farm land and the form of public space." ''New architecture and urbanism: Development of Indian traditions'' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010): 161-168. *"The Contemporary Concerns."
Architecture Plus Design
' 17, no. 4 (2000): 18. * "The introvert and extrovert aspects of the Marathi house." ''House and Home in Maharashtra'' (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998): 50-69. * "Culture And Space."
Architecture Plus Design
' 10, no. 6 (1993): 41.

Awards and honors

low cost housing in 1975, * The first prize and project for

Archaeological Museum An archaeology museum is a museum that specializes in the display of archaeological Types Many archaeology museum are in the open air, such as the Ancient Agora of Athens and the Roman Forum. Others display artifacts inside buildings, such as ...

in Srinagar in 2000, * Honoured on the Teacher's Day by the

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Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...

in 2015, * Honoured with Life Time Achievement Award by the IFJ,

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...

in 2019.

External links

Official Website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dengle, Narendra Living people Indian architects 1948 births Academic staff of the School of Planning and Architecture