GAURANG KHEMKA
Architect & Urban Designer | Founder and Design Director, URBNarc
Gaurang Khemka is an architect with a specialization in Urban Design and Resort Planning. He has over 15 years experience of working in North America, Europe and Asia and has worked across a range of scales and contexts, from master planning and programming public institutions to detailed design of high end resorts and residences. He understands the essence of place making and the qualities that create some of the world’s finest institutional, hospitality, commercial and residential projects and combines that with his management skills to deliver a product of the highest quality.
Gaurang has studied Architecture, Urban Design and Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked with reputed architects and urban design firms such as Charles Correa (Bangalore) Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore), EDAW Inc (San Francisco) and HOK Inc (Hong Kong, Singapore and Brisbane).
He is an active member of several professional organizations globally such as AIA, APA, IIA, ULI, and SPUR and started ULI’s young leader chapter in Singapore. He has been a visiting critic at UC Berkeley, Harvard GSD and Delhi School of Planning and Architecture and continues to engage with academics and professionals globally.
Most recently, he started the office for HOK Inc in Singapore and was instrumental in building the Singapore and South Asia Practice for HOK. He also headed HOK’s Urban Design and Planning team in Singapore till April 2008 and subsequently continues to head the South Asia operations for HOK Sport + Venue + Event that was recently rebranded as POPULOUS.
In January 2010, Gaurang founded URBNarc with a vision to design sustainable and complete environments – exceptional communities, places, spaces and buildings. He advises HOK, Woods Bagot, POPULOUS and a few more global design firms on finding sustainable and context specific solutions for South Asia in parallel to his primary focus of delivering high quality sustainable design solutions for the Planning, Architecture and Interiors Design industry through URBNarc.
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