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.[1] In 1962, he began teaching at the newly established architecture program of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.[2] 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.[3][4][5] He is regarded as a member of the pioneering generation of architects in Thailand who saw the field's development into an institutionalized profession.[6]
^Watanyakul, Prapakorn, ed. (2010). "Robert G. Boughey". Khui kap sathāpanik tonbǣp คุยกับสถาปนิกต้นแบบ. Conversations with Architects Series (in Thai and English). Bangkok: Li-Zenn Publishing.
ISBN978-616-7191-11-9.
^Cate, Sandra (2003). Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 140.
ISBN978-0-8248-6345-6. 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.
^Lam, Melissa (Spring 2009). "A Letter from Bangkok". Vie des Arts. 52 (214): 16.
ISSN0042-5435. 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.
Further reading
Hoskin, John (1995). "Architect's Profile: Robert G. Boughey". Bangkok by Design: Architectural Diversity in the City of Angels. Bangkok: Post Books. pp. 34–38.
ISBN974202037X.