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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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  • 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

  • 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. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • 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.

  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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  • 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

  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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  • 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

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Critical Textures

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

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

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Anna Derriks

  • City Builder Game Lab

    Studio

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • «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. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

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