Bob Galloway Jr.
Vice President, Design Principal
Accreditation
AIA, CSI
Practice Area Team
Faith-Based, PK-12 Education, Higher Education, Civic + Municipal, Public Safety, Recreation
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A Principal at FGMA’s Austin office, Bob Galloway has nurtured his expertise in educational, athletic, religious and community facilities through an impressive list of completed projects. Bob is deeply committed to the craft of architecture; he embraces a continual goal to create “beautiful, authentic and timeless design.” He enjoys the collaborative process among project teams and clients, fostering enduring client relationships and designing buildings that have a positive impact on users.
Bob studied under the tutelage of Fay Jones, a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice who inspired in him a great appreciation of Craftsman and Prairie School design. After embarking on careers elsewhere, Bob and a classmate launched a successful Austin, Texas-based firm: Jackson Galloway Associates. The 18-person firm was acquired by FGMA in 2019, marking an expansion into the Texas region. FGMA has now grown to a staff of more than 30 professionals across its Austin and Ft. Worth offices.
Working with mostly faith-based and nonprofit clients in recent years, Bob feels it is an honor to be trusted with the development of a new church facility using the hard-earned resources that a congregation saved up for perhaps a generation. He especially enjoys participating in a first worship service or ribbon cutting in a new facility that he had the privilege of designing.
Bob‘s signature is the old-style drawing board he uses to develop design ideas for new projects. “I believe hand-drawn sketches and renderings still have the potential to communicate to our clients an architecture expression and style that accomplishes our goals of beauty, authenticity, and timelessness.” He brings those goals to every client, creating spaces that speak to the community context and will stand the test of time.
Bob enjoys an active life, from daily runs along the Charles River in Cambridge in his early career followed by the trails along Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin. Now, Bob enjoys rowing his single scull on Lady Bird Lake almost every afternoon.
