Bob Bacon’s celebrated career as an architectural designer and student of the “built environment” spans nearly 40 years. Considered among a handful of visionary architectural designers at work today, Bob began his lifelong professional journey in the mid-1960s, when he studied architecture at Arizona State University.
In the early 1980s, the focus of Bob’s work turned to the design and development of luxury hotels, resorts and clubhouses in exclusive developments and golf communities throughout the Southwest, Florida, Canada and Japan. Some of his landmark projects include the famed Boulders Resort in Scottsdale, the Scottsdale Princess Resort and Conference Center, the Cochise /Geronimo golf clubhouse and the Sonoran Club at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, and Avatar’s Solivita active adult community in central Florida.
In addition to his exemplary design work, Bob has been involved as a consultant in the land planning, theme development, design controls and market positioning for several of Arizona’s most successful and prestigious properties, including the Boulders, Desert Highlands, Desert Mountain, Estancia, Whisper Rock, Terravita in Scottsdale; Anthem in north Phoenix; and Monte Vista Ranch in Wickenburg.
Bob was also instrumental in framing the visions for three distinctive Del Webb communities—Terravita, Sun City Grand and Anthem. Today, they are considered among the most successful community developments on of their kind.
Notably, Bob has established an enviable reputation as a designer of excellent luxury custom homes, and was honored in 2001 by Phoenix Home and Garden as a “Master of the Southwest.” His efforts to foster the pioneering concept of “minimal visual impact” in design, and his work to create a standardized system of information management and improved design processes, have helped galvanize Bob’s reputation as one of the most profound voices in architectural design and development.
Bob’s career is distinguished by an abiding respect for the visual and ecological well-being of our natural environments; an appreciation for the history and ethos of regional cultures; and a sense of responsibility for the sustainable social and economic viability of the built environment. Bob Bacon remains dedicated to creating a legacy of unsurpassed homes and communities and building a better world for future generations.
