Info

Maja Paklar Architect is a New York-based architecture studio engaged in residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality work. The practice operates at the intersection of design clarity, material exploration, and technical precision, with a portfolio spanning new construction, interior transformations, and the careful restoration of historic brownstones.

The studio is grounded in a hands-on, highly collaborative process. Each project is shaped through close dialogue with clients, builders, and fabricators, ensuring the design intent remains intact from concept through execution. This approach fosters a level of rigor and responsiveness where ideas are tested, refined, and built with purpose.

A defining aspect of the work is its focus on materiality and construction detailing. Spaces are composed through a careful orchestration of texture, color, and proportion, with particular attention given to how elements meet, align, and perform. Each room is treated as a distinct condition- considered individually, yet always in relation to a cohesive whole. The result is work that feels precise, layered, and quietly expressive.

Our Services

The studio offers full architectural services, from concept and schematic design through construction documentation, permitting (DOB and LPC), and construction administration, as well as interior and decorative services, including lighting design, material selection, and furniture curation.

About Maja

Maja is a licensed architect in New York with over 15 years of experience across residential, commercial, and cultural projects.

She has worked at leading firms including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Allied Works Architecture, contributing to a range of projects of multiple scales and typologies, with a focus on design excellence and technical rigor.

Maja holds a Bachelor of Design from the University of Florida and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Her graduate thesis was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize by the Boston Society of Architects.

Her work is informed by a belief that architecture is both conceptual and tactile—an act of shaping space through ideas, materials, and the discipline of building. With a background and ongoing interest in art and sculpture, she approaches design as a fundamentally three-dimensional practice, considering space, form, and material as interrelated elements that are experienced physically and intuitively.