Ralf Pasel is the founding partner of PASEL-K Architects, Berlin, and pasel.künzel architects, Rotterdam. With a focus on experimental housing typologies and construction in an international context, the practice explores the intersection between research, academic education, and architectural practice. The practice has received numerous awards for innovative housing strategies, including the International Bauhaus Award for the transformation of informal settlement housing in Chile, for new types of urban housing in the Netherlands, as well as for the implementation of rural health infrastructure through a series of prototypical health kiosks.

Following international guest professorships at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago and at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Ralf Pasel was appointed Professor of Design and Construction Technologies at the Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin, in 2012.

He joined the Berlin-based European Network Architecture for Health (ENAH) in 2024 and has, since his appointment as a board member of the Sto Foundation in 2022, headed the Foundation Board for Architecture.

In 2009, Ralf Pasel curated the exhibition Parallel Cases at the 4th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam.

Ralf Pasel has an extensive list of publications, including Situational Urbanism – Directing Postwar Urbanity: An Adaptive Methodology for Urban Transformation (Berlin: JOVIS Verlag, 2014), City and Wind – Climate as an Architectural Instrument (Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2014), Home not Shelter! – Gemeinsam Leben statt getrennt Wohnen (Berlin: JOVIS Verlag, 2016), and Bella Vista – Regionale Lösungen für globale Herausforderungen (Munich: DETAIL Edition, 2018).