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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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  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Online Information Event

    for Applicants for Doctoral Student Positions

    event

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    24.3.2026, 18:00, via Zoom

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #1 Stadtbilder

    Discussion

    13. February 2026Kristin Otte

    A joint event by "Organizing Architectures" and Volkshochschule Frankfurt as part of Frankfurt World Design Capital 2026, 29.4.2026, Stadthaus Frankfurt

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • The People’s Workbook, 1981

    Lecture Series
    Amageja (iron hoe blade), date and maker unknown. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

    16. March 2026Kristin Otte

    Lecture by Dr. Hannah le Roux, 24 June 2026, 7-8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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.

  • Business-as-unusual

    Exploring port stakeholders’ time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • 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

  • «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

  • 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
    Comparison of Europäerstadt (up) and Chinesenstadt (down), © Denkschrift betreffend die Entwickelung des Kiautschou-Gebiets, 1905-1906 (Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1899–1910), Anlage 4.

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    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

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • 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.

  • Ruochen Zheng

    Associates
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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.

  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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
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