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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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  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #2 Neue Altstadt – On the Diverse Effects of the Reconstruction Project

    Discussion

    11. May 2026Friederike Weidner

    A joint event by "Organizing Architectures" and Volkshochschule Frankfurt as part of Frankfurt World Design Capital 2026, 10.6.2026, Stadthaus Frankfurt

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

    publication
    Cover of "Spaces of Appearance. Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy".

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Critical Textures

    Socialist-Motivated Re-Organizations of Aesthetics in the Early 20th Century

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • 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.

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • 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

  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

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

    publication
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