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Photo courtesy James Walden In the archival photo above, Walden is the teacher standing in the background. Photo courtesy James Walden In the 1960s, James Walden and two colleagues started an architecture school in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, as part of a USAID initiative. He recently returned to give a keynote address at the school's 50th-anniversary celebration. Starting an architecture school in a developing country was not part of my life plan when I launched my career more than half a century ago. Yet in 1960, five years after graduating from Texas A&M University with a B.Arch. and three years