Richard Fernandez
November 7, 2023Fritz Fowler
November 8, 2023William P. Becker currently serves as a board member of Interfaith Philadelphia and New
Horizons Senior Center. He was the founding chair of the Design Advocacy Group, is a former
chair of the Foundation for Architecture, and a former board member of the American Jewish
World Service, the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Central
Philadelphia Development Corporation, Entrepreneur Works, Philadelphia Reads, the Urban
Affairs Coalition, and JEVS Human Services. He is also a past president and former building
committee chair of Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley.
Mr. Becker received a B.A. from Yale College in 1966 and an M. Arch from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1969. He worked in architectural practice for sixteen years with a variety of
firms, including the eminent architect Louis I. Kahn, followed by four years in real estate
development and property management as president of Reading Real Estate. He spent the
ensuing twenty-five years providing professional project management of design and
construction projects as the owner’s representative, including sixteen years as founding
Principal of Becker & Frondorf. Mr. Becker retired in August 2014.