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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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  • Monumentality, Coloniality, and the Rewriting of Public Space

    Lecture Series

    16. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Mechtild Widrich, 17 June 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Goethe-University Frankfurt

  • Business-as-unusual

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

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • On Famine Codes, Relief Camps, and the Making of Rural Poverty

    Lecture Series

    15. May 2026Kristin Otte

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

  • City Builder Game Lab

    Studio

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • 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.

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • «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

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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

  • Critical Textures

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

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1913) by Lu Märten

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
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  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Fanti Baum

    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

  • Between Aesthetic Justice and the Right to Beauty

    The Aesthetics of Self-built Settlements in Latin America

    Lecture Series

    3. June 2026Kristin Otte

    Lecture by Dr. Jessica Pineda-Zumaran, 8 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

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

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Kontroverse Architekturen #1 Stadtbilder

    Notes on the Exhibition

    Event Report

    9. June 2026Friederike Weidner

    by Gabriela Ornelas
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