Anna-Maria Meister is a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Lise Meitner Group Leader at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI), a Max Planck Institute. Her work bridges histories of architecture and technology, focusing on the political, social, and aesthetic consequences of design processes and standardized systems. Born from PhD at Princeton, Master's at Columbia, and Diploma at TUM Co-director of saai Archive for Architecture and Engineering Executive Board Member of 'Das große kleine Haus' housing cooperative Research Focus: Investigates 'coded objects' as intersections of design, bureaucracy, and technology, including: Proto-algorithmic thinking in pre-digital architecture Metadata's role in archival knowledge systems Material consequences of standardization regimes Entangled temporalities in design processes Her article trends (2020–2025) reveal cross-disciplinary analysis of: Material epistemologies in 20th-century Germany Algorithmic traces in modernist pedagogies Archival fragility as design method Postwar normative design systems Scientific Awards & Roles: Lise Meitner Fellowship (2022–present) Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Fellow (2020s) Co-curator of 'Radical Pedagogies' research project Advising & Collaborations: Co-director of saai Archive (KIT) with international impact DFG-funded Impact Research Network Collaboration with Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA)










