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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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  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #1 Stadtbilder

    Discussion

    13. February 2026Kristin Otte

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

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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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

  • (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

  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • 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

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

    Fields of Work in the “Organizing Architectures” Research Training Group

    General

  • 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.

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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  • Monumentality, Coloniality, and the Rewriting of Public Space

    Lecture Series

    16. March 2026Kristin Otte

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Mechtild Widrich, 17 June 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Goethe-University Frankfurt

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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