Paul Florian

Florian’s portfolio includes the renovation of the landmark Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank Building, retail prototypes and nationwide roll-outs for H2O Plus, Cellular One, and United Audio Centers (Tweeter), retail stores and showrooms for Sotheby’s, Chiasso, and Oilily, museum exhibits for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry, and numerous single- and multi- family residences.

After completing his undergraduate education, Paul Florian moved to London and worked as a project designer for two years in the office of Sir Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners Architects RMJM under the direction of David Lloyd Jones.

Colleagues at the Architectural Association included David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid, Susannah Hagan, and Ben Nicholson.

Florian returned from England to the Chicago area in 1978 and worked for two years as a project designer for the architecture firm Holabird and Root.

In 2019, Paul Florian taught an advanced design studio at the Yale School of Architecture as Robert A. M. Stern Visiting Professor.