Skip to main content Skip to footer

“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?

⏩ read more

Organizing Architectures

Organizing Architectures
  • Select
    • about
    • Projects
    • People
    • Events
    • Blog
    • Publications
  • About
  • Projects
  • People
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Publications
  • en
  • de

  • 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.

  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Dominik Laute

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Critical Textures

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

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

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • 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

  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Mike Bill

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • Anna Derriks

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Anna Derriks

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
    Profile Image of Friederike Weidner

  • 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

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Lore Graf

  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
    Profile picture of Chris Dähne

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Martin Knöll

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • Dr. Sarah Borree

    Associates

  • 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
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Imprint
  • Privacy
Code Snippet ma-customfonts 3.4.2