Anna-Maria Meister directs the Lise Meitner Research Group “Coded Objects” at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) - Max Planck Institut, and is full professor for architecture theory as well as co-director of the saai archive at KIT Karlsruhe. Meister’s work focuses on processes of design and the design of processes, the materiality of knowledge systems, history of ideas and methodological experimentation. She is a licensed architect with degrees from Princeton and Columbia University and works across medial divides, including exhibitions and installations. Most recently she co-edited the international research project Radical Pedagogies and the eponymous book (MIT Press 2022) as well as the interdisciplinary volumes Entangled Temporalities (2023) and Are You a Model?(2024) and Frei Otto: Building with Nature(2025); currently, she is editing a double volume titled Coded/Objects and completing a monograph on standardization as societal projection in 20th century Germany.
Anna-Maria Meister
