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Sprechstunden:
Lehrveranstaltungen im Sommersemester 2026
Lehrveranstaltungen im Wintersemester 2025/26
Professur für Architekturgeschichte
Geschäftsführender
Direktor
Sprecher des
Graduiertenkolleg "Architekturen Organisieren"
www.organizingarchitectures.org
Carsten Ruhl - Organizing Architectures
Sprecher des Center for Critical
Studies in Architecture (CCSA)
Center for Critical Studies in
Architecture
www.criticalarchitecture.org.
Sprecher des
LOEWE-Schwerpunkts "Architectures
of Order Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge"
www.architecturesoforder.org
Carsten Ruhl
– Architectures of Order
Modulbeauftragter
Carsten Ruhl has been Professor of Architectural
History at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2013. From 2010 to 2013 he
was Professor of Theory and History of Architecture at Bauhaus University
Weimar and from 2003 to 2010 Professor of Architectural History at Ruhr
University Bochum. He studied architecture, art history, philosophy and history
and has been working on the history and theory of architecture ever since. He
has received funding for his research projects from the Gerda Henkel Foundation,
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Getty Research Institute
(GRI), Los Angeles, the Hessian State offensive for the development of
scientific and economic excellence (LOEWE) and the German Research Foundation
(DFG).
In 2017, Carsten was one of the co-founders of the
Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) and from 2020 to 2024,
together with Christiane Salge (TU Darmstadt), he headed the LOEWE Research
Focus “Architectures of Order: Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge."
The new DFG Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures", whose
spokespersons are Carsten Ruhl and Sybille Frank (TU Darmstadt), emerged from
this research network in 2024. By considering architecture as something
organized and organizing, the RTG draws attention to the collectivities and
processes of planning as well as to their social dynamics. The prerequisite for
this is a strongly interdisciplinary orientation with the potential to
structurally and permanently link previously separate discourses that are of
central importance to the topic: architectural and social history, sociology,
urban planning, media studies, legal history and human geography perspectives
all complement each other in the research of architecture as multi-perspective
phenomena and instruments.
Important publications are: Bauhaus Clouds. Challenges to the Nebula of
Architectural Histories and Archives, co-edited with Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
and Oliver Elser, CCSA Topics, Weimar, M Books, 2024; Kracauer's Architecture.
The Ornamental Nature of the New Capitalist Order, Weimar, M Books, 2022;
Architektur ausstellen. Zur mobilen Anordnung des Immobilen, co-edited with
Chris Dähne, Berlin, Jovis-Verlag, 2015; The Death and Life of the Total Work
of Art. Henry van de Velde and the legacy of a Modern concept, proceedings of
the 12th International Bauhaus-Colloquium, co-edited with Rixt Hoekstra and
Chris Dähne, Berlin, Jovis-Verlag, 2015; Magisches Denken – Monumentale
Form. Aldo Rossi und die Architektur des Bildes, Berlin/Tübingen, Wasmuth, 2013;
Mythos Monument. Urbane Strategien
in Architektur und Kunst seit 1945, Bielefeld, transcript-Verlag, 2011
Carsten Ruhl has been Professor of Architectural
History at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since 2013. From 2010 to 2013 he
was Professor of Theory and History of Architecture at Bauhaus University
Weimar and from 2003 to 2010 Professor of Architectural History at Ruhr
University Bochum. He studied architecture, art history, philosophy and history
and has been working on the history and theory of architecture ever since. He
has received funding for his research projects from the Gerda Henkel Foundation,
the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Getty Research Institute
(GRI), Los Angeles, the Hessian State offensive for the development of
scientific and economic excellence (LOEWE) and the German Research Foundation
(DFG).
In 2017, Carsten was one of the co-founders of the
Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA) and from 2020 to 2024,
together with Christiane Salge (TU Darmstadt), he headed the LOEWE Research
Focus “Architectures of Order: Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge."
The new DFG Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures", whose
spokespersons are Carsten Ruhl and Sybille Frank (TU Darmstadt), emerged from
this research network in 2024. By considering architecture as something
organized and organizing, the RTG draws attention to the collectivities and
processes of planning as well as to their social dynamics. The prerequisite for
this is a strongly interdisciplinary orientation with the potential to
structurally and permanently link previously separate discourses that are of
central importance to the topic: architectural and social history, sociology,
urban planning, media studies, legal history and human geography perspectives
all complement each other in the research of architecture as multi-perspective
phenomena and instruments.
Important publications are: Bauhaus Clouds. Challenges to the Nebula of
Architectural Histories and Archives, co-edited with Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
and Oliver Elser, CCSA Topics, Weimar, M Books, 2024; Kracauer's Architecture.
The Ornamental Nature of the New Capitalist Order, Weimar, M Books, 2022;
Architektur ausstellen. Zur mobilen Anordnung des Immobilen, co-edited with
Chris Dähne, Berlin, Jovis-Verlag, 2015; The Death and Life of the Total Work
of Art. Henry van de Velde and the legacy of a Modern concept, proceedings of
the 12th International Bauhaus-Colloquium, co-edited with Rixt Hoekstra and
Chris Dähne, Berlin, Jovis-Verlag, 2015; Magisches Denken – Monumentale
Form. Aldo Rossi und die Architektur des Bildes, Berlin/Tübingen, Wasmuth, 2013;
Mythos Monument. Urbane Strategien
in Architektur und Kunst seit 1945, Bielefeld, transcript-Verlag, 2011