Narendra Dengle (born 1948) is an architect, academic, and author based in Pune.[1] 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.[2][3] He has partnered and worked on various academic and architectural projects with Achyut Kanvinde, Vasanth Kamath, Romi Khosla, M.N. Ashish Ganju, and Kamu Iyer.

Architectural practice and design

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Dengle began practicing architecture in 1974.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6] He has designed residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings, many of which have received critical appraisal and awards.[7] His awards include HUDCO low cost housing in 1975 and the first prize for the Archaeological Museum in Srinagar in 2000.[8]

Among his notable architectural projects are the Ramakrishna Math (2002), Maharshi Karve Museum (2007), and a bird observatory (2019), all in Pune.[9][10][11]

Academic career

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Narendra Dengle taught at the School of Planning and Architecture from 1974 to 1981.[12] He has been the Design Chair at institutions including 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.[13] Dengle continues to teach and be on the juries of several schools of architecture and design.[14][15]

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.[16] 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.[17]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Dialogues with Indian Master Architects (Mumbai: Marg, 2015).[18]
  • (with M.N. Ashish Ganju) The Discovery of Architecture: A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality (New Delhi: GREHA, 2013).[19][20]
  • झरोका (नाशिक: ब्रेन टॉनिक प्रकाशन गृह, २००७).[21]

Essays

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  • " 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.[22]
  • "Existential Issues, Memory, and Freedom." Journal of Landscape Architecture 62 (2020): 34-45.
  • "Foreword." Architecture of Nothingness (London: Routledge, 2019): 13-16.[23]
  • "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.[24]
  • "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.[25]
  • "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.[26]
  • "Culture And Space." Architecture Plus Design 10, no. 6 (1993): 41.

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ^ "Feeding Minds". The Indian Express. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. ^ Ganju, MN Ashish; Sheba, Chachhi; Jogindar, Panghal; Nadir, Dr K.L. (1986). "Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition". Aζ South Asia.
  3. ^ "The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  4. ^ "Landscape". www.lajournal.in. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  5. ^ "Narendra Dengle". Building Beauty. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  6. ^ "Architect Narendra Dengle Associates | Institutional | Residential | Hospitals | Architecture". www.narendradengle.in. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  7. ^ "Bird-watchers get a nest in Pune that offers best view". Hindustan Times. 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  8. ^ dxcp. "Narendra Dengle – DesignX". Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  9. ^ "Ramakrishna Math, Pune - Universal Temple Architecture". www.rkmpune.org. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  10. ^ "Maharshi Karve Memorial". map.sahapedia.org. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  11. ^ "Bird-watchers get a nest in Pune that offers best view". Hindustan Times. 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  12. ^ "Narendra Dattatraya Dengle". map.sahapedia.org. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  13. ^ "Narendra Dengle". Building Beauty. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  14. ^ "Specialization Groups of Expert Advisers: architecture and allied fields". www.itmuniverse.ac.in. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  15. ^ Matter (2014-11-04). "From a Labyrinth into a Maze: Narendra Dengle". MATTER. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  16. ^ "Feeding Minds". The Indian Express. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  17. ^ matter (2016-09-27). "DIALOGUES with Indian Master Architects: Narendra Dengle". MATTER. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  18. ^ Dengle, Narendra (2015). Dialogues with Indian Master Architects. Marg Foundation. ISBN 978-93-83243-06-8.
  19. ^ Ganju, MN Ashish; Dengle, Narendra (2013). "The Discovery of Architecture: A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality". ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research. 1 (2).
  20. ^ "Architect-urban designer MN Ashish Ganju, radical thinker and community builder, passes away". The Indian Express. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  21. ^ "झरोका-Zaroka by Narendra Dengle - Brain Tonic Publication House - BookGanga.com". www.bookganga.com. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  22. ^ "Landscape". www.lajournal.in. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  23. ^ Lyons, Frank (2018-09-18). The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-44662-2.
  24. ^ Kanvinde, Sanjay; Kanvinde, Tanuja (2017). Achyut Kanvinde: Ākār. Niyogi Books. ISBN 978-93-85285-60-8.
  25. ^ Prashad, Deependra (2013). New architecture and urbanism development of Indian traditions. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 978-1-4438-1892-6. OCLC 903292718.
  26. ^ Glushkova, Irina Petrovna; Feldhaus, Anne, eds. (1998). House and home in Maharashtra. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-564303-9. OCLC 758308922.
  27. ^ dxcp. "Narendra Dengle – DesignX". Retrieved 2022-03-14.