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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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  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Kristin Otte

    Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Business-as-unusual

    Exploring port stakeholders’ time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • 12 Positions for Doctoral Students

    Call for Applications

    3. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Application Deadline: 7.4.2026

  • In Search of the Lost Image

    (Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)

    PhD Projects
    Boris Rodoman, “Polarized Biosphere,” 30.3.1973. Paper, mixed media, 132 × 168 cm. © Boris Rodoman

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • 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

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Rudolph-Cleff

    Principal Investigators
    Profile Image of Annette Rudolph-Cleff

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

    Architectural Production in a Post-growth Society

    PhD Projects
    City view of Tokyo

  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
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  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Michaela Berger

    Administration

  • 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

  • «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

  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
    Profile Image of Dr. Christian Rosen

  • Unique and innovative collaborations

    Interview

    15. August 2025Friederike Weidner

    Video Interview about "Organizing Architectures" with the two Directors Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank & Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

  • Monumentality, Coloniality, and the Rewriting of Public Space

    Lecture Series

    16. March 2026Kristin Otte

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Mechtild Widrich, 17 June 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Goethe-University Frankfurt

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • Prof. Dr. Jens Borchert

    Principal Investigators
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