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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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  • Student Assistant

    Call for Applications

    31. July 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 16.8.2026

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • (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

  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

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

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  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
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  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • «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

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • 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

  • Dr. Sarah Borree

    Associates

  • 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.

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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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

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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