Organizing Architectures

Kontroverse Architekturen
#2 Neue Altstadt – On the Diverse Effects of the Reconstruction Project
Discussion
11. May 2026Friederike Weidner
A joint event by "Organizing Architectures" and Volkshochschule Frankfurt as part of Frankfurt World Design Capital 2026, 10.6.2026, Stadthaus Frankfurt
Organizing Architectures: Coloniality
Lecture Series
15. October 2025Friederike Weidner
Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero
PhD Candidates
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
Gabriela Ornelas
PhD Candidates
Fanti Baum
PhD Candidates
Dr. Christian Rosen
Postdocs
«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
Institutions – Networks – Discourses
Fields of Work in the “Organizing Architectures” Research Training Group
General
In Search of the Lost Image
(Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)
PhD Projects
Friederike Weidner
Coordinator
The Impact of German Colonial Culture (1898–1919) on Architecture of Tsingtau:
Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Based on Projects by Alfred Emil Siemssen
PhD Projects
Experiments in Process. Paradigm shift:
Teaching Architecture and Design in the Department of Building at the HfG Ulm
Postdoc Projects
Mad Space
PhD Projects
Michaela Berger
Administration
12 Positions for Doctoral Students
Call for Applications
3. March 2026Friederike Weidner
Application Deadline: 7.4.2026
(Dis-)Trusted Travellers
Borderscapes of Humans and Animals at Frankfurt Airport
PhD Projects
Critical Textures
Socialist-Motivated Re-Organizations of Aesthetics in the Early 20th Century
PhD Projects
Dr. Chris Dähne
Associates
Nikolay Smirnov
PhD Candidates
Lorenzo Graf
PhD Candidates
Kristin Otte
Student Assistants
Mike Bill
PhD Candidates
Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank
Directors, Principal Investigators

#2 Neue Altstadt – On the Diverse Effects of the Reconstruction Project

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

(Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)

Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Based on Projects by Alfred Emil Siemssen

Teaching Architecture and Design in the Department of Building at the HfG Ulm

Borderscapes of Humans and Animals at Frankfurt Airport

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