Portland, ME The New England Chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) selected architect Paul Lewandowski as its 2023 Business Leader honoree.

Lewandowski is the founder of Paul Designs Project, an architecture and interior design studio that focuses on residential and commercial design with specialties in single and multifamily residential projects, community-based performing arts, restaurant/hospitality, and community-based projects. Some of the five-person studio’s current projects include the new 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth, ME, a multi-family housing project in Southwest Harbor, ME, a new hotel in Warwick, N.Y., and the new headquarters of Fork Food Lab in South Portland, ME.

Lewandowski is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Rensselaer’s School of Architecture and in the textile & fashion design program at the Maine College of Art & Design. Lewandowski is a former president of IIDA New England, a member of the board of directors of the American Institute of Architect’s Maine chapter and is the small firm liaison for Maine for the American Institute of Architects Small Firm Exchange (SFX).

Lewandowski  is a Prostate Cancer survivor. He is an advocate with ZERO Prostate Cancer and a community reviewer for the Prostate Cancer Research Program (PRRP) of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).