Studio Lead - Newrope
Ellena is an architect, publisher, editor and researcher based in Zurich. Before starting her independent practice with Tibor Bielicky in 2021, she had been working with Graber Pulver Architekten and Christ & Gantenbein since 2015. In 2020 she co-founded the architecture periodical Superposition, after being part of the editorial board of the architecture magazine Planphase where several of her essays and interviews have appeared. After graduating from Technical University Munich in 2014 with a Diploma degree, she co-edited the documentary film “Im Windschatten von Olympia“ as part of a research on the urban development of Munich in the 1960s and 70s, and she self-initiated a multi-disciplinary research on American architecture, urbanism and subculture and created the research platform Recording America. She is interested in investigating cultural and spacial transformations through architecture.
