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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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  • Student Assistant

    Call for Applications

    31. July 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 16.8.2026

  • City Builder Game Lab

    Studio

  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

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

    publication

  • Structural Instability:

    Activism, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the “Urban Crisis”

    Postdoc Projects
    R. Buckminster Fuller at the first presentation of Black Man River City in 1971

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Susanne Heeg

  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

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

  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Christine Hieb

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • (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

  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Antje Krause-Wahl

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Vom Manuskript zum Manual 

    Visualisierung und Ordnung von Architektur im Buch

    publication
    Vom Manuskript zum Manual. Visualisierung und Ordnung von Architektur im Buch_Cover

  • 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. Postponed to the winter semester!

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Peter Collin

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • 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.

  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir
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