Paul's work has been shaped by his passionate belief in the integration of art and architecture. Throughout his career he has championed the importance of the arts within our education system, campaigning for greater focus on interdisciplinary thinking. He was on the founding UK Council of the Creative Industries Federation, which supports and champions the UK’s creative industries in their multiple forms and is a member of the RIBA Public Education Committee. After graduating from Birmingham College of Art, Paul headed the V&A Museum Design Department for nearly four years before being awarded a Fulbright research grant to study Museum and Gallery Design at Yale. Returning to London in 1980, he set up his own practice designing permanent and temporary exhibition installations for a number of the world’s foremost museums and art galleries, before setting up Stanton Williams with Alan Stanton in in 1985. Stanton Williams' projects span an exceptional range of building types - and many of which have involved collaboration with artists - include the Museum of London at West Smithfield, the Royal Opera House, UAL campus for Central Saint Martins at King’s Cross, the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, Compton Verney Art Gallery, the Millennium Seed Bank and the practice’s many exhibitions and museum installations. Paul lectures regularly at various universities and institutions both in the UK and abroad, as well as acting as an external examiner for several architecture schools in the UK. He has been awarded the title of Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2005 and received an OBE for services to architecture in 2014 as well as two Honorary Doctorates: one from the University of the Arts London in 2012 and, most recently, a second one from the Faculty of Art, Design and Media at Birmingham City University in 2022. In addition to this, Paul is a Visiting Professor at the Manchester School of Architecture and is currently on the fabric advisory panel of St Paul’s Cathedral. In the past he has also acted as a trustee of Space Studios and the Whitechapel Art Gallery as well as being an architectural advisor to HLF, CABE and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.