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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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  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Online Information Event

    for Applicants for Doctoral Student Positions

    event

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    24.3.2026, 18:00, via Zoom

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #1 Stadtbilder

    Discussion

    13. February 2026Friederike Weidner

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

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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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

  • 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

  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

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

    General

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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  • Critical Textures

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

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1930) by Lu Märten

  • Business-as-unusual

    Exploring port stakeholders’ time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • Demolition and Protest in Frankfurt’s Westend

    The Role of Monument Preservation in the 1970s Discourse on the Urban Development of the Gründerzeit District

    PhD Projects
    "Black flag demonstration" by the Westend Association against real estate speculation and house demolition in the Westend, August 1970: People with black flags in front of a covered house.

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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

  • 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

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Nikolay Smirnov

    PhD Candidates
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  • «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

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • (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
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