Welcome to www.arcadea.com, home of Arcadea Architecture, Inc. Located in Boulder, Colorado, Arcadea Architecture is one of the best-recognized architectural design firms in the Rocky Mountain and Denver Region that provides custom residential design. In addition to architectural and interior design of custom homes, custom home remodeling projects, and multi-family residential projects, we also have extensive experience in mixed-use, retail, commercial, and office projects. We offer a flexible service, but our full services typically include 3D modeling, interior design, lighting design, cost control, and construction oversight. Our two principal architects are members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Please view our website for a fairly extensive collection of photographs of our residential, commercial, mixed-use, and a few remodeling projects.
Arcadea’s beautifully creative, integrated designs have won wide acclaim in regional and national publications, such as Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Colorado Homes and Lifestyles Magazine, Living West Magazine, Remodeling Ideas Magazine, as well as the Rocky Mountain News. We have also had one of our houses featured on the Discovery Channel show, Lynette Jennings Design.
We use renewable and sustainable resources as much as possible, and always examine the environmental impacts on the local landscape. We focus on the details, including rigorous cost management. We utilize 3D modeling programs for a holistic approach to design, and often make hand-sketched drawings over pictures of 3D models to design our 3-dimensional structures. This helps our clients to better understand our architectural designs and allows them to interact with us more effectively. Besides this enhanced communication of ideas, we can better solve difficult architectural geometry problems. We have found that 3D modeling is an affordable alternative to cardboard models and that the process allows for multiple options to be tested and high-quality images to be rapidly produced.
Arcadea Architecture’s relatively small size allows us to provide a high level of service and responsiveness to our clients. Each site, each client, and each project gets personal attention and a unique solution. A cost control program is specialized and revised for each project.
Our name, ARCADEA, is a contraction of ARCHITECTURAL IDEA, and is also made up of the following:
ARC: A BEAUTIFULLY CURVED LINE
ARCADE: A CLASSICAL PASSAGEWAY
CAD: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN IN 3D
IDEA: THE UNIFYING ELEMENT OF DESIGN
ARCADIA: A SETTING OF IDYLLIC SIMPLICITY
Arcadea Architecture Inc.
741A Pearl St.
Boulder, Colorado 80302
303-449-6605

Principals Architects:
David A. Biek, AIA, Masters degree from Harvard University
Leonard Thomas, AIA, Masters Degree from the University of Arizona

The three other architects currently working for the firm are consultant architects that all have their own architecture firms, but work at least half–time at our offices. All have at least ten years of experience. We oversee all of their work. We are also in the process of trying to find full time architects to join our firm.
Our residential architectural design work includes: custom homes, luxury homes, modestly-priced homes, remodeled homes, second homes, and multi-family condominiums. Other work includes: retail, commercial, institutional design, restaurant design, large shopping malls and big-box retail down to very small, intensive storefronts and boutiques.

More about Arcadea:
Our two principals have more than 50 years of combined experience, and we have been designing projects nationally and internationally and many within the Boulder area. This has given us a good working knowledge of the City and County of Boulder’s Land Use Regulations and the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. Our membership and involvement with the Boulder Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Boulder Inc., Historic Boulder, and Habitat for Humanity give us a wide-ranging view of the various constituencies that come to bear on local projects. The concerns of our private clients have given us insight into the pressures and sensitivities that are faced during all projects, large and small, commercial, retail and residential. David Biek sits on Boulder’s Downtown Design Advisory Board and is also involved with the steering committee of Architects and Planners of Boulder.
In addition to projects in Denver and Boulder and the surrounding Denver Colorado metro area, Arcadea has worked on projects throughout the state of Colorado – in Aspen, Louisville, Greenwood Village, Gold Hill, Flagstaff Mountain (Boulder), Grand County (CO), Colorado Springs (CO), Golden (CO), Denver, Wolf Creek Valley, Telluride, Ft. Collins, Eldorado Springs, Niwot, Sunshine Canyon (Boulder County), and Lionshead (Vail). We have also worked on projects throughout the United States – Orlando, Miami, Gulf Breeze, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Monroe, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois, Phoenix and Gilbert, Arizona; Big Sky, Montana; Boston, Dorchester, Ipswich, Massachusetts; St. Paul, Minnesota; Yosemite Park, California; and internationally in Barcelona, Spain. Arcadia California is not yet one of the sites where we’ve done work, but that would be fun and interesting if Arcadea Architecture had a presence there.