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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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  • 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.

  • 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

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • City Builder Game Lab

    Studio

  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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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

  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
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  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

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

    publication

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • 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

  • 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

  • «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

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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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.

  • The People’s Workbook, 1981

    Development Geometries of an Anti-Apartheid Homesteading Manual

    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
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