Abdur Rashid is noted as a student from Pakistan enrolled on the 1966-67 postgraduate Educational Building course run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London, UK. Rashid successfully completed the course and was awarded the AA postgraduate Certificate in Tropical Architecture in July 1967. Two years later he is recorded as the Executive Engineer with the Education Directorate, at Daccar, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Details of Rashid’s subsequent career are not yet confirmed, but it is possible that he is the Mohammad Abdur Rashid, responsible for the design of the mosque at the National Monument for Unknown Martyrs, in Savar, Bangladesh (c1984). At that time, Mohammad Abdur Rashid was working as Assistant Chief Architect of the Bangladesh Public Works Department.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 24th July, 1967. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969. AA Archives
• Mahmud, F., Rahman, H. ‘The Museums in Bangladesh,’ Banglar Academy, 1987, p499
• ‘Mosque at National Monument, Savar, Bangladesh,’ Archnet website, Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Accessed 30th Dec. 2025: https://www.archnet.org/sites/513