About the Artist

Robert Douglass' paintings in pastel and oil have received multiple awards in juried competitions from the Austin Pastel Society, the Central Texas Pastel Society and the Sun City Texas Visual Arts Club.  He is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America.  A retired architect, his designs have been honored by awards from several components of the American Institute of Architects (Texas, Nebraska, Arizona), Progressive Architecture Magazine Design Awards and the National Endowment for the Arts. His biographies have appeared in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in the South and Southwest.

Douglass holds doctors and masters degrees from the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University.  He is also a graduate of the OPM Program at Harvard Business School where he serves on the Alumni Board.  He holds professional degrees in architecture from the University of Nebraska (BArch) and the University of Minnesota (MArch, as an AIA-AHA Fellow).  He is an emeritus Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architecture. He taught at Rice University, the University of Texas School of Public Health and Texas A & M University where he held The Thomas A. Bullock Endowed Professorship in Leadership and Innovation. He served as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a Harvard Business School Alumni Board member emeritus.  In 2019 he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who ( http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-service/462861 ).