About Robert Becker

I am a conceptual architectural artist who works in watercolor and also sources digital renderings & animations through IDF Global, a top computer graphics firm.  In addition to this, I created and curate Presenting Architecture the most comprehensive Directory and community of architectural presentation artists worldwide including communications experts, model makers, photographers and visualization artists.

Working in watercolor, my images are commissioned for all stages of presentation for design and planning studies and approvals, capital campaigns, and promotion for clients including architects, corporate identity firms, entertainment companies, interior designers, developers, law firms, non-profits, real estate offices, retailers and urban planners.  Images have been published in Architectural Digest, Landscape Architecture, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner, Orion Magazine, Imobilier, Unique Homes, marketing brochures, local papers and on numerous web sites.

In addition to working out of my studio, I also work directly in client’s offices and public workshops, 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, I have been located in the San Francisco Bay area, working for an international clientele.  Clients include 360 Architects, ADD Inc., Architecture International, Arquitectonica, BAR Architects, Bank of America, Beyer Blinder Belle, Carrier Johnson, City Design Collective, Dale & Associates, DeStefano Keating, EDAW, Ellerbe Becket, ELS Architects, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Field Paoli, Gensler, Chong Partners, Gyroscope, HDR/LCA + Sargent, Heller Manus, Hillier, HGA, HNTB, HOK, HOK Sport, KMD, KPF; London, Kwan Henmi, LMN; Seattle, Mark Cavagnero, Mia Lehrer + Associates; NBBJ, Old Navy, Opus, Perkins & Will, Rockwell Architecture, RTKL, SMWM, SOM, Sony, Stanford University, Stanley Saitowitz Office, Studios Architecture, The Gap, Leddy Maytum Stacy, The Jerde Partnership, Tishman Speyer Properties, UC Berkeley and Santa Barbara, WRNSTUDIO, and ZGF.

Previously I worked at Schaller Architectural Illustration, the New York City office of Tom Schaller AIA and given an acknowledgment credit for assistance in Thomas W. Schallers’ books Architecture In Watercolor and The Art of Architectural Drawing-Imagination & Technique.  I have also collaborated with other top illustrators including FM Costantino, James Akers, Douglas Jamieson and Dick Sneary.

Current and charter member of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators and the New York Society of Renderers as well as a Certified California Microbusiness, Bay Area Green Business & EPA Power Partner.  Recently completing five years serving on the Design Review Commission for the city of Walnut Creek and a member of the Steering Committee for the Walnut Creek General Plan update 2025 gives me a great insight to the public approvals process.

A professional in the field of architectural illustration since 1986.  BA, in Art with a minor in Architecture from Roger Williams College in Bristol, RI.  Studies also completed at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Boston Architectural Center as well as under Paul Stevenson Oles at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Current Exhibits:

• aMFa Gallery, Theater Square, Orinda & Berkeley galleries, works on an ongoing basis.
• Permanent collection – Lafayette Public Library & Learning Center
• Numerous private collections.