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«Organizing Architectures» is an interdisciplinary DFG-funded research training group that, together with several universities and research institutions in Hesse, aims to promote innovative qualification work by excellent young researchers. This highly interdisciplinary and international study and research program enables multi-perspective work that addresses the tension between architectural production and social processes. How do built or planned structures shape (public) spaces and social dynamics? How do social processes and discourses materialize in architecture? And how does this then impact society?

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  • Unique and innovative collaborations

    Interview

    15. August 2025Friederike Weidner

    Video Interview about "Organizing Architectures" with the two Directors Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank & Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

  • Everyday housing issues. On privatisation, refurbishment and protest

    Exhibition
    Video of Dhara Patel at STADTLABOR

    13. August 2025B.PH

    Exhibition at the CITY LAB, Historical Museum Frankfurt, 18 June 2025 to 1 February 2026, with Dr. Dhara Patel

  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence:

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Visible Spaces

    Reimagining the Saalbau in Post-Migrant Frankfurt

    Postdoc Projects
    Visual Fragmentation of the Saalbau. This collage brings together architectural details from different Saalbau halls across Frankfurt. Overlaid with words like “Opaque,” “Rigid,” and “(In)Visible,” it reflects how these civic buildings both host migrant celebrations and yet often keep them hidden from the city around them.

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff

    Principal Investigators
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  • «We want to establish architectural studies as a field of research»

    Interview

    12. March 2024B.PH

    Interview with Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl and Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank, directors of the Research Training Group «Organizing Architectures» by Lore Graf

  • Architectural Echoes of Authority and Social Stratification in 18th and 19th Century Sri Lanka 

    The Case of Kandy

    PhD Projects
    The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, c.1820

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • In Search of the Lost Image

    (Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)

    PhD Projects
    Boris Rodoman, “Polarized Biosphere,” 30.3.1973. Paper, mixed media, 132 × 168 cm. © Boris Rodoman

  • Demolition and Protest in Frankfurt’s Westend

    The Role of Monument Preservation in the 1970s Discourse on the Urban Development of the Gründerzeit District

    PhD Projects
    "Black flag demonstration" by the Westend Association against real estate speculation and house demolition in the Westend, August 1970: People with black flags in front of a covered house.

  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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  • Business-as-unusual:

    Exploring port stakeholders’ time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • Legal entanglements of labor and architecture in Africa

    Congress Session

    28. May 2025Friederike Weidner

    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted by Manuela Camargo & Raquel Sirotti, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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  • Critical Textures

    Socialist-Motivated Re-Organizations of Aesthetics in the Early 20th Century (working title)

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1930) by Lu Märten

  • Architectures of Staying in the Transapokalypse

    Evia after the wildfires of 2021

    PhD Projects
    The photo shows an olive tree in an orchard. The tree is hollow and partly charred. It carries leaves and some olives.

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Segregation by Design: Private Landlords, Racial Capitalism, and the Architecture of Migrant Housing in Frankfurt

    Congress Session
    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted be Dhara Patel, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

    10. July 2025Friederike Weidner

    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, by Dhara Patel 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
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  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

    PhD Projects
    Spatial configuration shapes co-presence in Berlin's public spaces.

  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Mad Space

    PhD Projects
    Front cover of the exhibiton catalogue of “Sculpture on Shoreline Sites” on Ward’s Island, New York, New York, 1983–1984

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • From the One-Family House to the shea hausu in Tokyo

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South

    Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru

    publication
    Cover of the Book "Hybrid Urbanisms"

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • (Re-)Making Sense of Socio-Ecological Transformations

    New and Old Inequalities in the Local Renegotiation of Global Concepts for Urban Development Projects

    Postdoc Projects
    Future Area of "Stadtteil der Quartiere"; Tree in front of Frankfurt Skyline in the Background

  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
    Profile image of Dhara Patel

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Nikolay Smirnov

    PhD Candidates
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  • Proceeding Through Steps

    The Stairways of Lower Courts as Novel Site of Interaction

    PhD Projects
    Main staircase of the district court building in Berlin Mitte

  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • The Impact of German Colonial Culture (1898–1919) on Architecture of Tsingtau:

    Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Based on Projects by Alfred Emil Siemssen

    PhD Projects
    Comparison of Europäerstadt (up) and Chinesenstadt (down), © Denkschrift betreffend die Entwickelung des Kiautschou-Gebiets, 1905-1906 (Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1899–1910), Anlage 4.

  • “Der, der die Burg baut, kennt sich am besten drin aus”

    A Critical Approach regarding the Relation of Children and Architectural Production within the Context of Material Assemblages of Playgrounds

    PhD Projects
    Kind begeht Brücke auf einem Abenteuerspielplatz

  • Ruochen Zheng

    Associates
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  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Buildings of International Law

    Architecture and the Production of Normative Orders

    PhD Projects
    View of the facade of the ECLAC building, Santiago

  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • (Dis-)Trusted Travellers

    Borderscapes of Humans and Animals at Frankfurt Airport

    PhD Projects
    Collage showing pictures and plans of Frankfurt Airport with hand-written Notes

  • Dorothea Douglas

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner
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