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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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  • Architectures of the Archive

    Reorganizing Memory and Hertiage

    Lecture Series
    Future Systems: Project 124 “Peanut,” 1984 – model of the project

    28. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Event with Prof. Dr. Sung Hong Kim, Setareh Noorani and Evelyn Steiner, 11 February 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • (Zionist) Coloniality Under (British) Colonialism

    The Architectural and Warfare Modernism of Yohanan (Eugene) Ratner in Mandatory Palestine

    Lecture Series

    27. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, 4 February 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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)

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • 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.

  • (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

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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

  • “Der, der die Burg baut, kennt sich am besten drin aus”

    A Critical Approach regarding the Relation of Children and Architectural Production within the Context of Material Assemblages of Playgrounds

    PhD Projects
    Kind begeht Brücke auf einem Abenteuerspielplatz

  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
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  • 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. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

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

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • Dorothea Douglas

    PhD Candidates
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