Thavisakdi Chandrvirochana undertook a BArch degree at Liverpool University, graduating in 1958, his thesis being on the South East Asia Treaty Organisation Headquarters in Bangkok. Later that year he enrolled on the Architectural Association’s 6-month, post-graduate course in the Department of Tropical Architecture. It is uncertain exactly when he returned to Thailand but by 1961 he was the Thai contributor to the Philippine Architecture and Building Journal and by 1964 was working for the Municipal Works Department, where he was the architect of the Thai National Documentation Centre, for the National Research Council. He also carried out work on the UN complex at Bangkok, as documented in an article in Asian Building and Constructing of 1972, but perhaps his best-known work is the Bank of Ayudhya, Bang Rak Branch, Bangkok.

Sources

• Architectural Association Council Minutes Books, 23rd February, 1959, p317, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961
• London, UK: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes.
• Chandrvirochana, T., S.E.A.T.O Headquarters, Bangkok, Thailand. BA Thesis, Liverpool University, 1958
• Philippine Architecture and Building Journal, 1961, p11.
• ‘Thai National Documentation Centre: An Account of the Planning, Establishment, Functions and Services of the Centre’, National Research Council of Thailand, 1964
• ‘Foundation work on United Nations complex in Bangkok: Architect: Thavisakdi Chandrvirochana’, Asian Building and Constructing, September 1972, p35