Robert M. Lawrence

Robert M. Lawrence FAIA (August 22, 1930 – February 21, 2011) was an American architect in practice in Oklahoma City.

His father's partner, B. Gaylord Noftsger, had previously been responsible for the Fort Worth Public Market, completed in 1930.

[1] In 1985 Lawrence & Flesher's upper school of the Heritage Hall School (1984), was recipient of an honor award from the Oklahoma chapter of the AIA and a Solomon Andrew Layton Award for masonry design from the Oklahoma Masonry Institute.

[1] As president Lawrence led the AIA's defense of Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as conservatives argued that the design was "too lacking in the symbols of heroism that more conventional monuments contain" and pushed for the inclusion of such symbols.

Ultimately a compromise was struck and the heroic elements, which had materialized as Frederick Hart's Three Soldiers statue and a flagpole, were sited in a position subsidiary to the memorial rather than as the main focus.

Raley Chapel of Oklahoma Baptist University , completed in 1961.
The Chambers Library at the University of Central Oklahoma , completed in 1969.
The press box addition to the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium , completed in 1975.