With a deep interest in the literary and visual arts, Paul brings a keen ear to the design process and seeks to infuse the solution with both pragmatic and narrative qualities. Prior to founding jones | haydu, Paul worked as senior designer and project manager on a range of residential, commercial, and academic projects for a small, award-winning firm. This experience focused on inventive and highly detailed and personalized solutions comprising in-depth research and open discourse.

Paul's father was a chemist, his mother a professor of literature, and his aunt a painter. The lively and varied discussions and experiences born of this environment instilled a sense of artistic curiosity tempered by scientific logic early on. A music lover, avid cook, intermittent author, ally of the outdoors, and aspiring world traveler, Paul seeks a breadth and depth of dialogue, interaction, and discovery. Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin. He has served as an adjunct professor, teaching at California Polytechnic State University (SLO) and the Academy of Art University. Paul is a registered architect in California.