She graduated from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design in the Academy of Arts of Estonia; she also studied in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. Siiri Vallner is a founding member and architect in Studios HEAD Arhitektid and Kavakava. Major works: the Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, Lotte Kindergarten in Tartu, the new building of the University of Tartu Narva College in Narva and the Culture Cauldron in Tallinn. She was the first person to be awarded the Young Architect’s Prize in 2008; she has earned the main prize in the competition Private House 2006–2007 organised by the Union of Estonian Architects and twice the annual prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.