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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.

  • Ruochen Zheng

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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

  • Nikolay Smirnov

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Antje Krause-Wahl

    Principal Investigators
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  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
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  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • 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

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • 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

  • 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.

  • Critical Textures

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

    PhD Projects
    “Äshetik und Arbeiterschaft” (1930) by Lu Märten

  • «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

  • (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

  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

  • 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

  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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