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As senior vice president for UDA, Paul Ostergaard has recently focused on strategic plans for revitalizing downtowns and waterfronts, by creating
new mixed use precincts, districts and neighborhoods. Paul is also responsible for numerous traditional neighborhood projects as well as the
architectural design of institutional buildings, university facilities, community centers, municipal buildings, and multi-family residential buildings.
Paul’s exceptional design and perspective drawing skills enable him to translate ideas into three-dimensional imagery that is easily understood by
clients and the public. This talent is especially valuable for urban design projects, where Paul’s participation in on-site charrettes enables the
diverse constituencies for these projects to readily visualize how an existing neighborhood can be transformed and revitalized. Prior to joining UDA,
Paul was instrumental in several corporate master plan projects for clients including IBM, Hewlett Packard and Intel.
Paul is the former president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and was
a design member of the Advisory Service Panel for the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, DC, in 1998. Paul is an active member of the Congress of
the New Urbanism and the International Downtown Association, participating as a speaker at many conferences. As a member of the American Society of
Architectural Perspectivists, Paul received the Society’s Award for Excellence in Graphic Representation of Architecture in 1995.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) where he serves as a visiting critic and
design instructor at the Urban Lab in the Department of Architecture. During his senior year at CMU, Paul won the Stewardson Traveling Fellowship,
enabling him to travel extensively, exploring urban design and architecture in Western Europe. Paul is a member of the national Phi Kappa Phi Honor
Society.
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