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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

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Nikolay Smirnov

    PhD Candidates
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  • Martina Wollweber 

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

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • City Builder Game Lab

    Studio

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • «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

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Shifting the Frame

    Marginalia in the Production of Architectural Knowledge

    Postdoc Projects

  • 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.

  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
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  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • “Der, der die Burg baut, kennt sich am besten drin aus”

    A Critical Approach regarding the Relation of Children and Architectural Production within the Context of Material Assemblages of Playgrounds

    PhD Projects
    Kind begeht Brücke auf einem Abenteuerspielplatz

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Kontroverse Architekturen #1 Stadtbilder

    Notes on the Exhibition

    Event Report

    9. June 2026Friederike Weidner

    by Gabriela Ornelas

  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • (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

  • 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.

  • Critical Textures

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

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