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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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  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Critical Textures

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

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1913) by Lu Märten

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • From the One-Family House to the shea hausu in Tokyo

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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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

  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov

  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

    Housing Commons for the “New Woman” of the German Werkbund

    publication

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Call for Contributions

    Visualising Health Equity for Urban Planning

    Open Call

    22. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    A "Cities & Health" special issue, led by guest editor Prof. Dr. Martin Knöll (Technical University of Darmstadt), calls for innovative contributions.

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • (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. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • 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.

  • Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture

    Techniques for Designing the Present Needs

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