She received her Architect Dipl.-Ing. from Technical University RWTH, Aachen (1999), École Spéciale d’Architecture scholarship, Paris (2000), Technical University RWTH, Aachen (2001). Ira has worked on a wide range of projects for offices based in Germany, France (Christian Biecher Architectes, Paris, 2000), and the UK (John Lyall Architects, London 2001-2004).