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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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  • Call for Contributions

    Socio-Ecological Transformations and the Hybridization of Infrastructure Delivery

    Open Call

    2. September 2026Kristin Otte

    Call for Contributions at XXI World Congress of Sociology, Deadline: 14 October 2026.

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

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

    Principal Investigators
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  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

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

    publication

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • 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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  • 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

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    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

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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

  • Kontroverse Architekturen #1 Stadtbilder

    Notes on the Exhibition

    Event Report

    9. June 2026Friederike Weidner

    by Gabriela Ornelas

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Dr. Sarah Borree

    Associates

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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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

  • Experiments in Process. Paradigm shift:

    Teaching Architecture and Design in the Department of Building at the HfG Ulm

    Postdoc Projects
    Foto-Collage mit Originalmaterial aus dem HfG-Archiv

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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