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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

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    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
  • Call for Contributions

    Visualising Health Equity for Urban Planning

    Open Call

    22. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    A "Cities & Health" special issue, led by guest editor Prof. Dr. Martin Knöll (Technical University of Darmstadt), calls for innovative contributions.
  • 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
  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence
  • 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
  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
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  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio
  • Critical Textures

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

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1930) by Lu Märten
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff

    Principal Investigators
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  • “Der, der die Burg baut, kennt sich am besten drin aus”

    A Critical Approach regarding the Relation of Children and Architectural Production within the Context of Material Assemblages of Playgrounds

    PhD Projects
    Kind begeht Brücke auf einem Abenteuerspielplatz
  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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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"
  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner
  • Architectures of Staying

    North Evia after the wildfires of 2021

    PhD Projects
    The photo shows an olive tree in an orchard. The tree is hollow and partly charred. It carries leaves and some olives.
  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar
  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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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
  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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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.
  • Dorothea Douglas

    PhD Candidates
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