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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)
  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Mike Bill
  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar
  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

    publication
    Cover: Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture. transcript Verlag, 2025
  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail
  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Dominik Laute
  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte
  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

    publication
    Cover of "Spaces of Appearance. Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy".
  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall
  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication
  • 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
  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
    Profile picture of Chris Dähne
  • From the One-Family House to the shea hausu in Tokyo

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo
  • 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
  • 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)
  • “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
  • (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
  • 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.
  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Anna Derriks
  • Legal entanglements of labor and architecture in Africa

    Congress Session

    28. May 2025Friederike Weidner

    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted by Manuela Camargo & Raquel Sirotti, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon
  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar
  • 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
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