Conceptual Design /
Architectural Illustration / Rendering & Visualization
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The Danmark,
Watercolor 16 x 20 inches
Robert works in
watercolor. Images have been
commissioned for all stages of design presentation, capital campaigns, planning
approvals, and promotion for clients including architects, corporate identity
firms, developers, entertainment companies, interior designers, law firms,
non-profit organizations, real estate offices, retailers, and urban planners. Robert's images have been published in Orion
Magazine, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Imobilier,
Unique Homes, Architectural Digest, and brochures, in numerous local newspapers
and on the World Wide Web.
Robert recently served
on the Design Review Commission for the City of Walnut Creek, CA for five
years. In conjunction with DRC,
Robert also served on the Steering Committee for the 2025 General Plan Update
for Walnut Creek.
Lunchtime Watercolor
is a seminar Robert has started with great success for his clients. Robert is a member of the American
Society of Architectural Illustrators, the Graphic Artists Guild, an Artist
member of the North East Watercolor Society, the New York Society of Renderers,
and the Society of Architectural Illustrators, UK.
In addition to working
out of his studio, Robert also works in client’s offices, giving the design
team direct access from viewing sketches, color studies and the final
watercolors in progress making the image process truly collaborative.
Since November 1995,
Robert has been located in the San Francisco Bay area, working for an
international clientele. Robert's
clients include:
ADD Inc; San Francisco, Allen & Hoshall; Memphis, American
Express, Architecture International, Arquitectonica, Bank of America, Bay Area
Sports Organizing Committee, Beyer Blinder Belle; NY, Bobrow / Thomas +
Associates; Los Angeles, Buttrick White & Burtis; NY, Carrier Johnson; San
Diego, Charles Pankow Builders, City of Fremont CA, Community Conservancy
International; Los Angeles, EFM Design; New York, ELS Architects, Ellerbe
Becket; San Francisco, Field Paoli, Gensler; San Francisco, Chong Partners,
Gyroscope, Inc., Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum; San Francisco, HOK Sport;
Kansas City, Interior Architects, Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz, Kohn Pedersen Fox; London,
Kwan Henmi, Loschky Marquardt & Nesholm; Seattle, MBT Architecture, Mia
Lehrer+Associates; Los Angeles, NBBJ; San Francisco & Research Triangle,
NC, Old Navy, Oliver Design Group; Cleveland, Opus; Minneapolis, Paul Ma
Design, Perkins & Will; Chicago and Los Angeles, Rockwell Architecture; NY,
RTKL Architects; Washington DC, Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, Spieker
Properties, Stanius Johnson; Duluth, Stanley Saitowitz Office, Sony
Development, Stanford University, Studios Architecture, Stone Marraccini
Patterson, SWA Group; Sausalito, The Gap, The Jerde Partnership; Venice Beach,
The Marine Mammal Center; Sausalito, The Roybal Corp.; Denver, Tishman Speyer
Properties, University of California, Berkeley, Marcie Wong & Donn Logan,
WRNS Studio, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca; Portland & Los Angeles.
Round the Mark, Watercolor 18 x 18 inches
Previously, Robert has
worked at Schaller Architectural Illustration (SAI), the New York City office
of Tom Schaller AIA. Robert has
been given an acknowledgment credit for his assistance in Thomas W. Schallers'
books Architecture In Watercolor, and The Art of Architectural Drawing.
Robert has been a
professional in the field of architectural illustration since 1986. He received a BA, in Art with a minor
in Architecture from Roger Williams College in Bristol, RI. He has also studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design as well as under Paul Stevenson Oles at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design.
Architectural
- Architecture In Perspective 22, an international juried
exhibition 2007.
- Process & Sustainability-AIA East Bay,
November 2006-January 2007- an exhibition highlighting the work of 450 Architects and Robert Becker and the importance of
responsible design through collaboration and environmental sustainability.
- Orion Magazine, Paintings commissioned to
accompany “A New Spin on Wind” article written by Josh Weil. November /
December 2005 issue.
- Architecture In Perspective 20, an international juried
exhibition 2005.
Aurora University Performing Arts Center, SGA
Architects
- Design Collaboration through Imagery, San Francisco AIA 2004. Curator and exhibitor.
- Architecture In Perspective 17, an international juried
exhibition 2002.
Community Conservancy International’s Baldwin
Hills Park, Los Angeles
Design Team: Mia Lehrer + Associates, Los Angeles /
Hood Design, Oakland
- Artists’ Impressions in Architectural Design, Spon Press, 2002
- ASAI @ SFAIA 2001, Exhibition at the San
Francisco AIA Gallery, 2001-2001.
Exhibition coordinator.
- Architecture In Perspective 16, an international juried
exhibition 2001.
Color Study Watercolor
Opera San Jose, ELS Architects, Berkeley, CA
- Architecture In Perspective 13, an international juried
exhibition 1998.
#3, Designed by Robert Becker, Watercolor 10
x 13 inches
- ASAP San Francisco Bay Area Members
Exhibition at The 1998 AIA National Convention, Moscone Center, May 14-17,
1998, two pieces, exhibition coordinator.
- Exhibition of Interior Illustration, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, Kansas, four pieces, invitational.
- ASAP @ SFAIA at the San Francisco AIA
Gallery, 1996, two pieces, exhibition coordinator.
Theater at Yerba Buena, Polshek &
Partners, Topographical, Watercolor 8 x 20 inches
- A Perspectivist Salon at the New York School for
Interior Design, 1995, two pieces invitational.
- Architecture In
Perspective VIII, an international juried
show 1993.
Spectator Light, Designed by Robert Becker,
Watercolor 18 x 13 inches
- The Japan Architectural Renderers
Association's Thirteenth Annual Exhibition at the Japan Institute of
Architects National Convention, Kobe, Japan; Aichi Industrial Trade
Center, Nagoya, Japan 1993.
- New York Society of Renderers,
Architectural & Interior Rendering exhibition, at Artisanspace, Shirley
Goodman Resource Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City,
1993.
- Mamaroneck Artists Guild National Open Juried
Exhibition, Westchester Community College, 1991.
Landscape & Maritime
- In Praise of Sailing, www.laughingelephant.com
2004
Devil’s Pulpit, Mount Diablo, Watercolor, 22
x 30 inches
- Summit Museum Gallery, Mount Diablo, 2002.
Watching the Sunset, Watercolor, 12 x 19
inches
- A Gallery of Maritime Art, Rockport Publishers, 1998.
- Annual Juried Exhibitions, 15th, 17th,
18th, and 19th.
North East Watercolor Society, Goshen, NY.
Colors, Watercolor, 22 x 30 inches
- The River Gallery, Irvington, New York. Four
maritime watercolors, 1995.
- The 11th Annual Riverside Park Arts
Festival,
New York City, 1995.
- Numerous exhibitions at the Mamaroneck
Artists Guild Gallery, Larchmont, NY, 1990-1994.
- Maritime Art Show, U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy, Kings Point, NY, 1993, juried.
- Castle Fine Arts Competition, Second in watercolor, Port
Chester, NY, 1993, juried.
Slow Race, Watercolor, 14 x 18 inches
- Water Color Today, Create Arts Workshop, New
Haven, CT, 1992, juried by Jeanne Dobie.
Missing the Sunset, Watercolor, 14 x 18
inches
- New Rochelle Art Association 77th
juried exhibition, New Rochelle Public Library, NY, 1991.
Originals and high quality limited edition
archival prints of Robert’s watercolors are available for purchase.
53 Parklane Drive, Orinda, CALIFORNIA 94563
Phone: 925-254-4234 Email: robert@robertbecker.com
Images Copyrighted to Robert Becker
1990-2007.
Any reproduction must have the written
permission of Robert Becker.