pasel.künzel architects was founded by Ralf Pasel and Frederik Kuenzel on the principle that „there is no urbanism without detail, and no detail without urbanism“ and that everything in between is architecture.
As architects, we consequently feel compelled to work on all levels of scale, from urban planning down to the minute details of material junctions.
Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, pasel.kuenzel architects have created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combine complex situations, innovative thinking, design and space.
The office works internationally with a focus in the Netherlands, Germany and Chile and was awarded many times for their work, amongst others for the prestigious International Bauhaus Award 2008.
Alongside their architectural practice Ralf Pasel and Frederik Kuenzel are both visiting professors at the Academy of Architecture Rotterdam.

Ralf Pasel (* 1970)
Ralf Pasel is principal architect of pasel.künzel architects.

Ralf Pasel is presently Visiting Professor and at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Design Rotterdam.
He taught at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands and was Visiting Professor at the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile and at the Universidad Central at Santiago de Chile in 2004.

Since 2004 he works with Frederik Künzel as pasel.künzel architects.
The office won a lot of prizes and was awarded many times for their work, amongst others for the prestigious International Bauhaus Award 2008.

Ralf Pasel studied Architecture at the Ecole d’ Architecture de Paris, France, The Univeristy of Liverpool, England and at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany where he graduated in 1998 with „Honors Cum Laude“.
Between 1999 and 2004 he worked as Project Architect in charge at KCAP (Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners) on two large-scale housing developments in Venlo and Rotterdam, the Netherlands and an office building in Haarlem.
Previously he has worked with Jean Nouvel and Santiago Calatrava, Paris and David Mikhail, London.

In 2009 Ralf Pasel was curator of the „Parallel Cases“ exhibition of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

Frederik Kuenzel (* 1971)
Frederik Künzel is principal architect of pasel.künzel architects.

Frederik Künzel works with Ralf Pasel since 2004 as pasel.künzel architects after having worked with KCAP (Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners), where he mainly worked on housing projects and at the Kaisersrot research project that was done in cooperation with the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Between 2004 and 2005 he worked with the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research in the Hague, Netherlands.
Before he had worked as architect in Germany and was an assistant at the CAD institute at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Frederik Künzel teaches at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Design Rotterdam and has taught at Technical University in Delft before. In 2004 Frederik Künzel was visiting professor at the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Chile and at the Universidad Central at Santiago de Chile.

He studied architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he graduated in 1999.

Publikationen

2010`HOUSE V21K01´, De Zeen Magazine, 03/2010
2010`PROJECTS FOR THE OPEN CITY´, Bauwelt 06/2010
2009 IABR - 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, `PARALLEL CASES EXHIBITION´, Bauwelt 41/2009, Abitare 10/2009, Il Giornale Dell Architettura, 03/2004, Tagesanzeiger 05/10/2009, Basler Zeitung 05/10/2009, Radio SR DSR 2, Reflexe, Interview Ralf Pasel, 30/09/2009
2009`HOUSE V23K16´, Bouwen met Staal, 08/2009
2009`HOUSE V23K18´, Houtwereld, Nr. 18, 09/2009
2009`ZEEN VAN VRIJHEID´, Artikel: Ralf Pasel, Frederik Künzel, Veröffentlicht in: De Architect, 10/2009
2009`HOUSES V23K16 + V23K18´, Buchveröffentlichung: Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in the Netherlands, Yearbook 2007/08, Herausgeber: Uitgeverij Blauwdruk, ISBN 978-90-75271-29-4
2009`HOUSES V23K16 + V23K18´, NBD Magazine 10/2009
2009`ELEMENTAL CHILE´, De Architect 29/2009
2008`INTERNATIONALER BAUHAUS AWARD´, ARTE, Metropolis, TV, 05/07/2008; MDR, Artours, TV, 26/06/2008; Bauwelt, 25/2008; DB - Deutsche Bauzeitung 08/2008; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11/07/2008; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25/06/2008; Die Welt, 25/06/2008; SWR 2 Radio `Journal am Mittag´, 23/06/2008; Deutsche Welle Radio, 22/06/2008
2008`STEP’S N SLABS - ÖKONOMIE II´, Artikel: Ralf Pasel, veröffentlicht in: Der Architekt, 6/2008
2008`BDA - 12 BERLINER GESPRÄCH´, Stadtbauwelt, 48/2008
2008`STEP’S N SLABS´, Artikel: Ralf Pasel, Veröffentlicht in: Tiefblick Magazine, 03, 6/2008
2007 `PRAKTIJKVOORBEELDEN ENERGIEZUINIGE WONINGBOUW´, SenterNovem / Ministerie van VROM
2007`AS LARGE AS LIFE, JUNGE QUARTIERE FÜR DAS WOHNEN IM ALTER´, Landeswettbewerb 2006 NRW – Ministerium für Bauen und Verkehr NRW
2007`BLURRING BOUNDARIES´, Buchveröffentlichung: Nieuw tij!
Herausgeber: Stichting het zeeuwse gezicht, ISBN 978-90-804991-2-6
2006`SLACHTHUIS | WOONHUIS´, De ontwikkeling van een industrieel gebied tot de woonwijk Nieuw Leyden, Buchveröffentlichung: Slachthuis | Woonhuis, Herausgeber: Stadt Leiden mit PORTAAL, ISBN 90-810501-1-7
2006 `URBAN URBANITY´, Buchveröffentlichung: Europan 7 and 8, Austria and Slovenia, Herausgeber: Europan Austria, ISBN 10: 3211476059
2005`ELEMENTAL CHILE´, Buchveröffentlichung: Time Based Architecture, Herausgeber: 010 Publishers, ISBN 90-6450-536-5
2004`ELEMENTAL CHILE´, AIT, Intelligente Architektur, 03-04/2004
2004`ELEMENTAL CHILE´, Il Giornale Dell Architettura, 03/2004
2004 `EUROPAN 7 - SUBURBAN CHALLENGE´, De Architect, 02/2004
2004 `EUROPAN 7 - SUBURBAN CHALLENGE´, Buchveröffentlichung: European Results, Herausgeber: Europan Europe, ISBN 2-915578-58-3
2004 `EUROPAN 7 - SUBURBAN CHALLENGE´, Buchveröffentlichung: Deutsche Ergebnisse, Herausgeber: Europan Deutschland, ISBN 3-00-013466-2
2004`HOUSE 4 TWO´, Ambiente, 10-11/2004
2005`HOUSE 4 TWO´, Buchveröffentlichung: Best designed: Modular Houses, Herausgeber: av edition GmbH, ISBN-10: 3-89986-055-1
2005`DIE IDEALE BIBLIOTHEK DES 21. JAHRHUNDERTS´, Bauwelt, 45/2005
2003`KEIN HAUS VON DER STANGE´, db, Deutsche Bauzeitung, 9/2003
2002`WOHNHAUS IN ILLINGEN, EIGENLEISTUNG´, AIT, Intelligente Architektur, 07-08/2002
2002`NEW IRISH ARCHITECTURE - AAI AWARDS 2002´, Buchveröffentlichung: New Irish Architecture, Herausgeber: Architectural Association of Ireland
2001 `ZURICH MOTION´, Hochparterre Design Magazine 11/2001
2001 `EUROPAN 6 - IN BETWEEN CITIES´, De Architect, 02/2002
2001`EUROPAN 6 - IN BETWEEN CITIES´, Buchveröffentlichung: Deutsche Ergebnisse, Herausgeber: Europan Deutschland

In nextroom dokumentiert:
WESTARCH VOL 1, A New Generation in Architecture, Hrsg. Brigitte Franzen, Marc Grünnewig, Florian Heilmeyer, Jan Kampshoff, Andrea Nakath, Deutsch, Englisch, JOVIS, Berlin 2010, 192 S..
Bauwelt, Linie 1 in Nizza, deutsch, Bauverlag BV GmbH, Berlin 2008.

Auszeichnungen

2010Europe 40 under 40 Award for emerging architectsWinner

2008`INTERNATIONAL BAUHAUS AWARD 2008´ 1. Preis
Housing shortages -
The minimum subsistence level housing of today
Dessau, DE

2006`GROENVINK´3. Preis
Realisierungswettbewerb: `Casa Nova´,
Stadsgevest Haagelanden, NL

2006`RIBBON OF BOOKS´ 1. Preis
Internationaler Ideenwettbewerb: `Ideal Library´
Cork, IE

2005 `WERKBEURS´Grant
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts,
Design and Architecture

2005`HOUSE 4 TWO´Nominiert
BDA Preis, Saar, DE

2004`FOUR SEASONS´ 1. Preis
Realisierungswettbewerb: `Bouw Mij!´
Leiden, NL

2004`VLINDER´1. Preis
Realisierungswettbewerb: `Wonen op Niveau´
Roombeek, Enschede, NL

2003`STAPS `N SLABS´1. Preis
Internationaler Realisierungswettbewerb: `Elemental Chile´
Santiago de Chile, CL

2003`EUROPAN 7´ -2. Preis
Suburban Challenge
Vienna, AT

2002`AAI Award´ Special Mention
Architectural Association of Ireland
Dublin, IE

2002`DAS GOLDENE HAUS´1. Preis
Preis für Ökologisches Bauen
München, DE

2001`MOTION ZURICH´1. Preis
Internationaler Ideenwettbewerb: `Kasernenareal´
Zürich, CH

2001`EUROPAN 6´ - 1. Preis (disq.)
In between Cities
Ingolstadt, DE

Ausstellungen, Vorträge

2010ZEEËN VAN VRIJHEID – Dek 22, Rotterdam
2010WEST ARCH – A new Generation in Architecture – Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2010ZEEËN VAN VRIJHEID + WOC GHANA - Top Delft
2010SQUAT. THE INFORMAL CITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION – MUSEO DA CASA BRASILEIRA, SAO PAULO, BRASIL
Exhibition in collaboration with Urban Think Tank, Elemental, MMBB, Christian Kerez a.o.
2010PROJECTS FOR THE OPEN CITY – ÉCOLE DES BEAUX ARTS, PARIS
20094th INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM - IABR 2009
CURATOR OF THE „PARALLEL CASES“ EXHIBITION
2009IK BOUW IN NIEUW LEYDEN! - RAP LEIDEN
2009SOFT CITY – STROOM THE HAGUE
Exhibition in collaboration with Pushwagner, Akza Aksamija, Dubravka Sekulic
2007KNOOPPUNT LEIDEN - RAP LEIDEN
Exhibition in collaboration with Faro Architecten, Berger Barnett Architecten en Gaaga
2004EUROPAN 7 Suburban Challenge – The German Results – Café Moskau, Berlin, Germany
and Altes Rathaus Deggendorf, Germany
2004EUROPAN 7 Suburban Challenge – Urban Intensity and Housing Diversity – Athinais, Athens, Greece
2003/04EUROPAN 7 Suburban Challenge – Urbane Intensität und Vielfalt des Wohnens – Vorarlberger Architekturinstitute,
Dornbirn, Austria en Salzburg, Austria
2001EUROPAN 6 In Between Cities – Architectural Dynamics and New Urbanity – Sony Centre, Berlin, Germany