She graduated from Politecnico di Milano (Bachelor + Master degrees) in 2013 receiving the highest scores for her university career. In the same year having passed successfully Italian State Exam she has officially received the qualification of architect. During recent years she had an opportunity to collaborate with Toyo Ito Architects and Associates (Tokyo), Osamu Ishiyama Laboratory (Tokyo), Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti & Alberto Francini (Milan), AM Projects (Milan) and some other international offices. Currently Maria Novozhilova has been involved in a number of design- and research- projects which range from urban, architectural and small object design scale to the analysis of architecture, design and arts on new media in collaboration with Voices from the Blogs.)