The Architectural Research Group (ARG) was a short-lived American architectural collaboration society functioning between 1933 and 1934 whose members were interested in the European avant-garde-influenced aesthetics and populist social agenda. It was established in 1932 by Louis Isadore Kahn and Dominique Berninger

Dominique Berninger

Dominique Berninger, AIA, , was a French-born American architect based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, who practiced nationally in the mid twentieth century but particularly in Pennsylvania...

, who had previously worked together at the firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

. Kahn had just returned from Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, working on the U.S. Department of Justice building in 1932. Most of the significant project output from this group regarding Kahn and Berninger was unbuilt, including Kahn's public housing scheme for the Public Works Administration. The ARG was short-lived and Kahn quickly took a job with the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, while Berninger commenced his own practice in 1933 before forming the partnership of Berlinger & Bower.