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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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  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Online Information Event

    for Applicants for Doctoral Student Positions

    event

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    24.3.2026, 18:00, via Zoom

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #1 Stadtbilder

    Discussion

    13. February 2026Friederike Weidner

    A joint event by "Organizing Architectures" and Volkshochschule Frankfurt as part of Frankfurt World Design Capital 2026, 29.4.2026, Stadthaus Frankfurt

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • Shifting the Frame

    Marginalia in the Production of Architectural Knowledge

    Postdoc Projects

  • (Re-)Making Sense of Socio-Ecological Transformations

    New and Old Inequalities in the Local Renegotiation of Global Concepts for Urban Development Projects

    Postdoc Projects
    Future Area of "Stadtteil der Quartiere"; Tree in front of Frankfurt Skyline in the Background

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • 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

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • (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

  • 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

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • 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.

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
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  • Business-as-unusual

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

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • Architectural Echoes of Authority and Social Stratification in 18th and 19th Century Sri Lanka 

    The Case of Kandy

    PhD Projects
    The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, c.1820

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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.

  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • 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"
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