Darrick is a licensed architect in the State of Colorado as well as a certified planner. His company, Bostad International has designed, or is designing projects in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Texas, and British Columbia, Canada.  Prior to opening Bostad International, he completed ten years of work for the Town of Silverthorne, Colorado as Planner, Community Development Director, Assistant Town Manager, and finally, as Town Manager.  He has worked as a consulting architect and planner for Homeowners Associations since 1994 helping with design review and development of design guidelines. Darrick is in a unique position to understand big picture needs as well as implementation strategies.  He has been immersed in many sensitive planning issues and has the private sector experience to move ideas beyond the visioning stage and into reality.  His unique approach to the process of design will assure any client a custom project.

Darrick was selected out of over 700 applicants statewide for a traveling scholarship for his thesis work at Texas Tech University.  He chose to study the multi-sensual perceptions of space and place as well as an environment that is interactive with the neighborhood and the individual. With a deaf-blind clientele, he designed a series of group homes which could be experienced by and were appealing to all the senses. The traveling scholarship was used to present this thesis at an international conference for the deaf-blind in Denmark.

Garrett Bjork has joined Darrick and is an important part of the Bostad group. This small passionate team is dedicated to going beyond the visual appeal of architecture and into the sustainable and the multi-sensual realm of creating “place”. “Place for living”. This is what the Swedish term “bostad” means.