Narendra Dengle

Dengle began practicing architecture in 1974.{{Cite web|title=Landscape|url=http://www.lajournal.in/62-3.asp|access-date=2021-12-01|website=www.lajournal.in}} 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 Revathi Kamath was an employee.{{Cite web|title=Narendra Dengle|url=https://www.buildingbeauty.org/faculty-profiles/narendra-dengle|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Building Beauty|date=2 November 2016 |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Architect Narendra Dengle Associates {{!}} Institutional {{!}} Residential {{!}} Hospitals {{!}} Architecture|url=http://www.narendradengle.in/|access-date=2021-12-01|website=www.narendradengle.in}} He has designed residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings, many of which have received critical appraisal and awards.{{Cite web|date=2019-08-01|title=Bird-watchers get a nest in Pune that offers best view|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/bird-watchers-get-a-nest-in-pune-that-offers-best-view/story-8p6wM8HWq8bHq1fIoi0NYK.html|access-date=2021-12-01|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}} His awards include HUDCO low cost housing in 1975 and the first prize for the Archaeological Museum in Srinagar in 2000.{{Cite web|last=dxcp|title=Narendra Dengle – DesignX|url=https://www.toi-dx.com/dx2019/member/narendra-dengle/|access-date=2021-12-01|language=en-US}}

Among his notable architectural projects are the Ramakrishna Math (2002), Maharshi Karve Museum (2007), and a bird observatory (2019), all in Pune.{{Cite web|title=Ramakrishna Math, Pune - Universal Temple Architecture|url=http://www.rkmpune.org/rkm_pune/rkmp_temp_arch.html|access-date=2021-12-02|website=www.rkmpune.org}}{{Cite web|title=Maharshi Karve Memorial|url=https://map.sahapedia.org/article/Maharshi-Karve-Memorial/2850|access-date=2021-12-02|website=map.sahapedia.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2019-08-01|title=Bird-watchers get a nest in Pune that offers best view|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/bird-watchers-get-a-nest-in-pune-that-offers-best-view/story-8p6wM8HWq8bHq1fIoi0NYK.html|access-date=2021-12-02|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}

Narendra Dengle taught at the School of Planning and Architecture from 1974 to 1981.{{Cite web|title=Narendra Dattatraya Dengle|url=https://map.sahapedia.org/search/article/Narendra-Dattatraya-Dengle/2608|access-date=2021-11-30|website=map.sahapedia.org|language=en}} He has been the Design Chair at institutions including [https://krvia.ac.in/ KRVIA] (2006-2011), and also the Academic Chair at the Goa College of Architecture (2012-2014). He has been closely associated as a faculty member with the Building Beauty Programme at the Sant'Anna Institute in Sorento.{{Cite web|title=Narendra Dengle|url=https://www.buildingbeauty.org/faculty-profiles/narendra-dengle|access-date=2021-11-30|website=Building Beauty|date=2 November 2016 |language=en-US}} Dengle continues to teach and be on the juries of several schools of architecture and design.{{Cite web|title=Specialization Groups of Expert Advisers: architecture and allied fields|url=http://www.itmuniverse.ac.in/SAAD/Expert-Advisers.php|access-date=2021-12-01|website=www.itmuniverse.ac.in}}{{Cite web|last=Matter|date=2014-11-04|title=From a Labyrinth into a Maze: Narendra Dengle|url=https://thinkmatter.in/2014/11/04/from-a-labyrinth-into-a-maze-narendra-dengle/|access-date=2021-12-01|website=MATTER|language=en}}

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.{{Cite web|date=2019-07-11|title=Feeding Minds|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/architecture-architects-forum-feed-prasanna-desai-feeding-minds-talk-page-5824287/|access-date=2021-12-02|website=The Indian Express|language=en}} A selection of interviews and writings eventually resulted in the book Dialogues with Indian Master Architects, which features Achyut Kanvinde, Raj Rewal, Anant Raje, Hasmukh Patel, Balkrishna V Doshi, Uttam C. Jain and Charles Correa.{{Cite web|last=matter|date=2016-09-27|title=DIALOGUES with Indian Master Architects: Narendra Dengle|url=https://thinkmatter.in/2016/09/27/dialogueswithindianmasterarchitects/|access-date=2021-12-02|website=MATTER|language=en}}

• (with Pushkar Sohoni, Minal Sagare, Chetan Sahasrabuddhe), महाराष्ट्रातील वास्तुकला : परंपरा आणि वाटचाल, 2 volumes (मुंबई: महाराष्ट्र राज्य साहित्य आणि संस्कृती मंडळ, २०२४).
• (with Pushkar Sohoni, Minal Sagare, Chetan Sahasrabuddhe), Architecture in Maharashtra: Tradition and Journey, 2 volumes (Mumbai: Maharashtra State Board for Literature and Culture, 2024).

• Dialogues with Indian Master Architects (Mumbai: Marg, 2015).{{Cite book|last=Dengle|first=Narendra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mpPlrQEACAAJ|title=Dialogues with Indian Master Architects|date=2015|publisher=Marg Foundation|isbn=978-93-83243-06-8|language=en}}
• (with M.N. Ashish Ganju) The Discovery of Architecture: A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality (New Delhi: GREHA, 2013).{{Cite journal|last1=Ganju|first1=MN Ashish|last2=Dengle|first2=Narendra|date=2013|title=The Discovery of Architecture: A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality|url=https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-193356|journal=ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research|language=en|volume=1|issue=2}}{{Cite web|date=2021-05-07|title=Architect-urban designer MN Ashish Ganju, radical thinker and community builder, passes away|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/architect-urban-designer-mn-ashish-ganju-radical-thinker-and-community-builder-passes-away-7305725/|access-date=2021-11-30|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}
• झरोका (नाशिक: ब्रेन टॉनिक प्रकाशन गृह, २००७).{{Cite web|title=झरोका-Zaroka by Narendra Dengle - Brain Tonic Publication House - BookGanga.com|url=https://www.bookganga.com/eBooks/Books/Details/4911488033133877859|access-date=2021-11-30|website=www.bookganga.com}}

• " Muni Ganju: A Wise Man of Indian Architecture." [http://www.lajournal.in/ 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.{{Cite web|title=Landscape|url=http://www.lajournal.in/publications.asp|access-date=2021-12-08|website=www.lajournal.in}}
• "Existential Issues, Memory, and Freedom." [http://www.lajournal.in/ Journal of Landscape Architecture] 62 (2020): 34-45.
• "Foreword." Architecture of Nothingness (London: Routledge, 2019): 13-16.{{Cite book|last=Lyons|first=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QUNvDwAAQBAJ&q=architecture+of+nothingness|title=The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts|date=2018-09-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-44662-2|language=en}}
• "Friends for Life: memories and associations of places and nature." [http://www.lajournal.in 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.{{Cite book|last1=Kanvinde|first1=Sanjay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OK2aswEACAAJ|title=Achyut Kanvinde: Ākār|last2=Kanvinde|first2=Tanuja|date=2017|publisher=Niyogi Books|isbn=978-93-85285-60-8|language=en}}
• "Rejuvenation and Reincarnation: history as a means of living the present." [http://www.lajournal.in/ 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.{{Cite book|last=Prashad|first=Deependra|title=New architecture and urbanism development of Indian traditions|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Pub|isbn=978-1-4438-1892-6|location=Newcastle upon Tyne|language=English|oclc=903292718}}
• "The Contemporary Concerns." [https://www.architectureplusdesign.in/ 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.{{Cite book|editor1-last=Glushkova|editor1-first=Irina Petrovna|editor2=Feldhaus, Anne |title=House and home in Maharashtra|date=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-564303-9 |location=Delhi |language=English|oclc=758308922}}
• "Culture And Space." [https://www.architectureplusdesign.in/ Architecture Plus Design] 10, no. 6 (1993): 41.

• HUDCO low cost housing in 1975.
• The first prize and project for Archaeological Museum in Srinagar in 2000.
• Honoured on the Teacher's Day by the IIA Pune in 2015.
• Honoured with Life Time Achievement Award by the IFJ, Mumbai in 2019.{{Cite web |last=dxcp |title=Narendra Dengle – DesignX |url=https://www.toi-dx.com/dx2019/member/narendra-dengle/ |access-date=2022-03-14 |language=en-US}}

• [http://www.narendradengle.in/ Official Website]

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