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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. Postponed to the winter semester!

  • 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.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff

    Principal Investigators
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  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
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  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • 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.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Lorenzo Graf

    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.

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • 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

  • 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

  • Dr. Sarah Borree

    Associates

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • 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.

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

    publication
    Cover: Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture. transcript Verlag, 2025

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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.

  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

    Fields of Work in the “Organizing Architectures” Research Training Group

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  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar
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