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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.

  • 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.

  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Fahrmeir

    Principal Investigators
    Andreas Fahrmeir

  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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  • Visible Spaces

    Reimagining the Saalbau in Post-Migrant Frankfurt

    Postdoc Projects
    Visual Fragmentation of the Saalbau. This collage brings together architectural details from different Saalbau halls across Frankfurt. Overlaid with words like “Opaque,” “Rigid,” and “(In)Visible,” it reflects how these civic buildings both host migrant celebrations and yet often keep them hidden from the city around them.

  • 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

  • Proceeding Through Steps

    The Stairways of Lower Courts as Novel Site of Interaction

    PhD Projects
    Main staircase of the district court building in Berlin Mitte

  • «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

  • On Famine Codes, Relief Camps, and the Making of Rural Poverty

    Lecture Series

    15. May 2026Kristin Otte

    Lecture by Dr. Ateya Khorakiwala, 15 July 2026, 7-8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators

  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • (Dis-)Trusted Travellers

    Borderscapes of Humans and Animals at Frankfurt Airport

    PhD Projects
    Collage showing pictures and plans of Frankfurt Airport with hand-written Notes

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    Studio

  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication
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