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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

  • 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.

  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

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

    publication

  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Ruochen Zheng

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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

  • Business-as-unusual

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

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • «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. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Alla Vronskaya

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Shifting the Frame

    Marginalia in the Production of Architectural Knowledge

    Postdoc Projects

  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

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

    General

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • (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

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

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

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Annette Rudolph-Cleff

  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

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