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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

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
    Profile Image of Dr. Christian Rosen

  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Sybille Frank

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • 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

  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Christine Hieb

  • 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.

  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • (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

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Dominik Laute

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
    Profile image of Dhara Patel

  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov
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