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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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  • Between Aesthetic Justice and the Right to Beauty

    The Aesthetics of Self-built Settlements in Latin America

    Lecture Series

    3. June 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Dr. Jessica Pineda-Zumaran, 8 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt or via Zoom
  • On Famine Codes, Relief Camps, and the Making of Rural Poverty

    Lecture Series

    15. May 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Dr. Ateya Khorakiwala, 15 July 2026, 7-8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt
  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators
  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar
  • Kontroverse Architekturen

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo
  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte
  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin
  • Experiments in Process. Paradigm shift:

    Teaching Architecture and Design in the Department of Building at the HfG Ulm

    Postdoc Projects
    Foto-Collage mit Originalmaterial aus dem HfG-Archiv
  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Sybille Frank
  • 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
  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Dominik Laute
  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call
  • 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.
  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Anna Derriks
  • Structural Instability:

    Activism, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the “Urban Crisis”

    Postdoc Projects
    R. Buckminster Fuller at the first presentation of Black Man River City in 1971
  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Mike Bill
  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
    Profile Image of Dorothea Douglas
  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov
  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators
  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir
  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

    Housing Commons for the “New Woman” of the German Werkbund

    publication
  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication
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