{{short description|American architect}} {{Use MDY dates|date=March 2023}} [[File:Kamalapur Railway Station at night.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Kamalapur Railway Station]] '''Robert George Boughey''' (born June 20, 1936) 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 (now Bangladesh) and Thailand.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tasmia |first1=Fatema |last2=Riyaad |first2=Mahmudul Anwar |title=Sensitivity Towards Context and Climate: An Understanding of Robert G. Boughey's Architectural Works in Bangladesh |journal=Journal of Architecture |date=26 October 2021 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=31–49 |url=https://arch.buet.ac.bd/ja/index.php/ja/article/view/53 |publisher=Department of Architecture BUET |doi=10.71198/HIXU1625 |language=en |issn=2789-4193|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
In 1962, he began teaching at the newly established architecture program of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.<ref>{{cite web |title=An architectural marvel in Dhaka |url=https://dailyasianage.com/news/31078/an-architectural--marvel-in-dhaka |website=The Asian Age |access-date=24 March 2023 |language=en |date=17 September 2016}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rgbarchitects.com/rgb_biog.htm |title=Biography |website=RGB Architects |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701144937/http://www.rgbarchitects.com/rgb_biog.htm |archive-date=2016-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.perspectiveglobal.com/pa_website/09-judges-panel.html |title=A&D Awards brings the best of the A&D Trophy Awards and A&D China Awards |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131042633/http://www.perspectiveglobal.com/pa_website/09-judges-panel.html |archive-date=2013-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/world-heritage-and-immovable-heritage/asia-pacific-heritage-awards-for-culture-heritage-conservation/biographies/robert-boughey/ |title=Robert G. Boughey |website=UNESCO Bangkok |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416022639/http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/world-heritage-and-immovable-heritage/asia-pacific-heritage-awards-for-culture-heritage-conservation/biographies/robert-boughey/ |archive-date=16 April 2013}}</ref>
He is regarded as a member of the pioneering generation of architects in Thailand who saw the field's development into an institutionalized profession.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Watanyakul |editor1-first=Prapakorn |title=Khui kap sathāpanik tonbǣp |script-title=th:คุยกับสถาปนิกต้นแบบ |series=Conversations with Architects Series |date=2010 |publisher=Li-Zenn Publishing |location=Bangkok |isbn=978-616-7191-11-9 |language=th,en |chapter=Robert G. Boughey}}</ref>
==Notable works== * National Museum of Bangladesh, Dhaka * Kamalapur Railway Station, Dhaka, 1961–64 * Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka ** Shaheed Suhrawardi Hall<ref name="iab" /> ** Sher-e-Bangla Hall<ref name="iab" /> ** Titumir Hall, 1962-1964<ref name="iab" /> ** Gymnasium, 1964<ref name="iab" /> ** Academic Building, Department of Civil Engineering, 1965<ref name="iab">{{cite web |title=List of Modern Heritage Sites in Bangladesh |url=https://beautifulbangladesh.gov.bd/frontend/assets/pdf/IABs_List_of_Modern_Heritage_Sites_123837360278634060.pdf |publisher=Institute of Architects Bangladesh |date=November 2022}}</ref> * Priests and Seminarians Residence, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, 1963-1964<ref name="iab" /> * Saint Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka, 1963-1964<ref name="iab" /> * Holy Family Hospital's sisters' Hostel, Dhaka, 1963-1965<ref name="iab" /> * Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, 1965–66 * Don Mueang International Airport Domestic Terminal, Bangkok, 1982 * Bank of America, Bangkok * Diethelm Towers, Bangkok * SCB Park Plaza, Bangkok<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cate |first1=Sandra |title=Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon |date=2003 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |location=Honolulu |isbn=978-0-8248-6345-6 |page=140 |quote=In Bangkok in 1995, ... at the Siam Commercial Bank’s headquarters, a futuristic turquoise and gold complex in the suburbs of Bangkok designed by the American architect Robert Boughey.}}</ref> * The Boughey Residence, Bangkok * Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lam |first=Melissa |date=Spring 2009 |title=A Letter from Bangkok |journal=Vie des Arts |volume=52 |issue=214 |page=16 |issn=0042-5435 |quote=Designed by Bangkok architectural firm Robert Boughey & Associates, the new [Bangkok Art and Culture] Centre is housed in a twelve-floor atrium-style edifice with a cork-screw ascending ramp in a salutary homage to New York's Guggenheim Museum.}}</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite book |last1=Hoskin |first1=John |title=Bangkok by Design: Architectural Diversity in the City of Angels |date=1995 |publisher=Post Books |location=Bangkok |isbn=974202037X |pages=34–38 |chapter=Architect's Profile: Robert G. Boughey}} *{{cite thesis |last=Vongkulbhisal |first=Supasai |title=Than Samai in Modern Thai Architecture: Case Studies of Crypto-colonialism |chapter=The Story of Robert G. Boughey and His Works |pages=83–108 |type=PhD thesis |publisher=University of Washington |date=2022 |hdl=1773/48452 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48452}}
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