She was educated at TU Graz (Austria) and TU Delft (Netherlands), and she has been practicing architecture and urban design in the Netherlands, Austria, and Australia. In her research work and teaching she investigates cultural issues in regard to contemporary cities and architecture, thereby focusing on issues such as the quality of living environments and socio-cultural sustainability, as well as space perception and space production, together with an exploration into the intersection between media and architecture. She has been an invited lecturer and guest critic at academic institutions internationally, and exhibited in the HK-SZ Bi-City Biennale in 2007 and 2009, and at the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008.