Maja Ozvaldič is a designer/architect, coming from Maribor/Slovenia, and is currently working and teaching in Vienna at the University of Applied Arts. She studied architecture and received her Diploma with distinction from the University of Applied Arts - Studio Greg Lynn in January 2009. She gained her professional experience in Vienna working with Peter Kogler, the next ENTERprise - architects and Chalabi Architects. In 2010 she received the TISCHE Scholarship and went working for Cmmnwlth in New York prior to joining Asymptote Architecture New York, where she worked on a range of high-profile international projects. She has previously taught with Lise Anne Couture at GSAPP Columbia University in New York and lectured with Peter Trummer at the Institute for Urban Design (IOUD) in Innsbruck. Since 2013 Maja has co-directed the SLIVER Lecture Series at the Institute of Architecture, which addresses design agendas of contemporary culture in order to map the expanded field of architecture.