Paulus van der Kuil

Paul van der Kuil has been working as a lecturer and researcher with permanent responsibilities at the Department of Planning and Construction Economics/Real Estate Management since January 2024. Prior to that, from 2017 onward, he was a lecturer at the Department of Urban Development at TU Berlin’s Campus El Gouna (Egypt).  After completing his degree in Architecture at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) in 2001, he spent around 15 years working in various positions within the European real estate sector. During this time, he gained extensive professional experience in project development, investment management, as well as project and change management. In 2010, Paul completed an advanced professional program in Real Estate Management at TU Berlin. He earned his doctorate at TU Berlin in 2023 with a dissertation on Investorenarchitektur (Investor-driven architecture). His teaching and research interests focus, on the one hand, on how architectural and urban quality can be integrated with commercial project development, as well as on sustainability issues and ESG reporting requirements in the real estate industry. On the other hand, he is interested in interdisciplinary pedagogy in the teaching of architecture and urban development. Paul lives in Berlin and is fluent in Dutch, German, English, and Italian.

Selected projects relevant for the network

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Location (City, Country), Year, Client, Collaborators (Surname, N.) and additional contributors, if applies. 

(Forthcoming) July 2026, Workshop (5 day Summer School). Cairo. Sustainable Egyptian Real Estate in Theory and Practice. With Elmouelhi, Hassan; Geurts, Tom;  and Khalil, Rana (TU Berlin); Salheen, Mohamed and Afify, Samy (Ain Shams University IUSD); DAAD Regional Office Cairo and Urban Development Fund. 

March 2026, Seminar. Public Space and Real Estate. With Scheerbarth, Benjamin and Husten, Mario Genealogy of Urban Design (www.Gudesign.org), https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JaDc84Dvtb5C6s3o1CQTs_wXi9E8QC4o/view?usp=share_link

Mar 2025, Exhibition. Einfamilienhäuser für Alle! With Grau, Nanni and Engelke, Jan;  Architekturgalerie Berlin. https://architekturgalerieberlin.de/ausstellungen/einfamilienhaeuser-fuer-alle  

Jan 2023, Seminars and Workshop. Sustainable Urban Development and Real Estate Economics. With Sadiki, Johanna and Kamal, Azza Technische Universität Berlin and Fulbright Specialist Programme.

Nov 2022, Lecture, Real Estate Challenges in Urban Design. Genealogy of Urban Design (www.Gudesign.org)

May 2018-2022, Real Estate Finance Workshops and Urban Development Excursions in New York City and Washington DC. With Geurts, Tom (TU Berlin). 

Nov 2020, Lecture. Challenges in Real Estate and Urban Design. Urban Maestro (www.urbanmaestro.org)/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2j3eOgW2qg&t=4s

Sep-Oct 2020. Masterclass. Co-City Torino. New Governance Strategies for Urban Design. Urban Maestro (www.urbanmaestro.org)