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History
The Acacia Group, Inc.
is an Arizona-based landscape architecture and urban design firm located in
Tucson, Arizona. Two of the firm’s staff are Arizona registered Landscape
Architects and are considered to be experts in arid region landscape
architecture and irrigation design.
The firm’s primary areas of professional practice have included:
 | Landscape Architecture |
| Site Planning |
| Park and Recreation Planning |
| Urban Design |
| Environmental Assessment |
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| Irrigation Design |
| Water Conservation Planning |
| Desert Revegetation Programs |
| Historic Landscape Preservation |
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The firm’s public participation programs for government and private clients
have resulted in planning and design solutions that strike a balance between
user needs, project constraints, budgets, cost effectiveness and innovation.
The Acacia Group has been the recipient of 34 local awards and 3 national awards
for excellence in design, research and resource planning. In 1991, Walt Rogers,
representing the firm, received the "Landscape Visionary Award" for
his work on Sunrise Drive Arterial in Pima County. Sunrise Drive was described
by the architectural critic of the Tucson Citizen newspaper as the most
aesthetic arterial road in Pima County.
Walt Rogers has been a principal of his
own firm in Tucson since 1979. He is the founding partner of The Acacia Group,
Inc. He was an Assistant Professor (1976-81) and Adjunct Professor (1981-82) in
the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is
an author of a number of journal articles and books on landscape architectural
topics. He is considered an authority on the historic introduction of ornamental
plant materials in Tucson and the Southwest, and he has completed a number of
regionally significant historic landscape preservation projects. Mr. Rogers has
experience in landscape architecture, site planning, recreational facility
planning, land-use planning, urban design, project coordination, project
management, and landscape construction administration. He is an expert in
applying xeriscape principles of design in the hot arid setting of Tucson,
Arizona and the Southwest. Walt is one of the pioneers in the areas of native
plant inventories, native plant salvage programs, desert revegetation and
landscape recovery programs with his initial work going back to the late 1970s.
John Hucko, a partner in The Acacia Group, is responsible for all phases of
landscape architecture projects including site analysis, design development,
preparation of construction documents, and construction administration services.
John is the lead irrigation designer for the firm and is responsible for all of
the irrigation design that is developed by The Acacia Group. John has extensive
experience as a project manager and project landscape architect. He is an expert
in the use of plant materials in a hot arid setting and at applying the
principals of xeriscape design. John has served as the project landscape
architect or project manager on 10 projects that have received xeriscape design
awards.
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