Narendra Dengle

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]

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]

• (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).^[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]

• " 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.