No building symbolises the advent of professional architectural education in Bangladesh during the 1960s more appropriately than the Department of Architecture building, designed by Richard Edwin Vrooman (1920-2002), at the BUET

The BUET Architecture building is located at the north-western edge of the campus on a wedge-shaped site. Two thoroughfares border the site in the north and south, intersecting in the west at Bakhshi Bazar. An internal campus road forms the eastern edge of the site which also provides access to the Architecture Faculty building complex. At the centre of the triangular site was a large pond which was later filled. Precast concrete pylons were inserted into the unstable soil to provide a secure building foundation. Architect Daniel Dunham proposed a master plan for this part of the campus which was to include the University's main library, auditorium, cafeteria, and BUET teachers' club.

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