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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

  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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

  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • 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.

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • (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. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • 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.

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • 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!
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