Ella Neumaier

Biography

Ella Neumaier is a Doctoral Candidate at the Laboratory for the History and Theories of Architecture, Media, and Technology (HITAM) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her current research focuses on the modern construction of soil, specifically the entangled development of German soil science and associated ideologies with a global network of built artifacts for nitrate production and distribution in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ella holds an MA in Architecture (Cultural Heritage, History, and Criticism) from TU Munich and is an editorial advisor to Berlin-based publishing house ArchiTangle. Before joining HITAM, she was an editorial assistant and curator of exhibition projects at the Architekturmuseum in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.