Robert G. Boughey


Robert George Boughey is an American architect who has worked primarily in Dhaka and Bangkok. Born in Pennsylvania, he completed his Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute in New York in 1959, after which he worked for Louis Berger, Inc., overseeing its projects in East Pakistan and Thailand. In 1962, he began teaching at the newly established architecture program of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He received a Diploma in Tropical Studies from AA School of Architecture in London in 1967, and worked as a research professor of architecture at Pratt institute, before settling in Bangkok in 1973, where he established the firm Robert G. Boughey and Associates. He is regarded as a member of the pioneering generation of architects in Thailand who saw the field's development into an institutionalized profession.

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