Department of Architecture is a government department under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works in Bangladesh. It is responsible for designs for the Ministry. It is located in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. A.S.M. Aminur Rahman is the chief architect of the department.

History

Department of Architecture was established in 1952 through the Principal Architect Construction Construction Act of 1952. It is led by a chief architect. In 2013 following the

Rana Plaza disaster The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) was a structural failure that occurred on 24 April 2013 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka District, Bangladesh, where an eight-storey commercial ...

the department was given the responsibility to improve safety.

References

Government departments of Bangladesh 1952 establishments in East Pakistan Organisations based in Dhaka {{Bangladesh-org-stub