Paul Buum rejoined SALA Architects in 2001 after a four-and-a-half-year position as Senior Designer with a nationally recognized design/build firm. Paul was also a project architect with SALA from 1989 to 1996.
Paul’s new houses employ vernacular forms and open floor plans, while his remodels seamlessly blend the positive attributes of old and new. Paul favors a residential architecture less interested in itself and more resembling the people who live in it. Each project is new, yet still familiar.
Paul has been published extensively in various home journals and has new homes featured in the books Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home, The Simple Home and Not So Big Remodeling all published by Taunton Press.
He has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was awarded Top Honors for Thesis, and was the recipient of the prestigious Young Architects Award from AIA Minnesota in 2007. Paul is a registered architect in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota and is NCARB-certified.
Chrysalis Award for Residential Exterior over 100K, 2011
ROMA Award for Deck, Patios, Porches, 2010
COTY Best Residential Exterior Grand Award, NARI, 2009
Young Architects Award, AIA Minnesota, 2007
RAVE Award, AIA Minnesota/MplsStPaul Magazine, 2007
Ambassadorship Award, SALA Architects, Inc., Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, 1995
Top Honors Award for Thesis, University of Minnesota, CALA, 1989
Scholarship toward Architectural Education, South Dakota AIA, 1985
Books
Welcoming Home, by Michaela Mahady, Gibbs Smith, 2011
Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live, by Sarah Susanka, Taunton Press, 2007
The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough, by Sarah Nettleton and Frank Martin, Taunton Press, 2007
”>On the Porch: Creating Your Place to Watch the World Go By, by James Crisp, Taunton Press, 2007
The Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home, by Jean Rehkamp Larson, Taunton Press, 2004
Garage: Reinventing the Place We Park, by Kira Obolensky, Taunton Press, 2001
”>The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, by Sarah Susanka and Kira Obolensky, Taunton Press, 1998
Journals
“Great Garages for Today,” Arts and Crafts Homes, William J. O’Donnell, Winter 2007
“Return to Favor,” Better Homes and Gardens, Before and After, Meredith Publishing, August 2004
“Center Stage,” Better Homes and Gardens, Beautiful New Homes, Meredith Publishing, Summer 2001
“Trading Places,” Renovation Style, Meredith Publishing, Spring 1999
“A Place to Call Home,” Renovation Style, Meredith Publishing, Winter 1998
“Reality Check,” Remodeling Magazine, Hanley Wood, March 1998
“A New Farmhouse,” House Beautiful Magazine, Hearst Publishing, Spring 1997
“A Party Pleaser,” Twin City Business Monthly, MSP Communications, April 1997