She worked with Asymptote New York and West 8 Landscape Architects Rotterdam. She taught at the University of Delft and was an assistant professor at the University of Karlsruhe at the Chair for Urban Design. With her firm SMAQ she has conducted urban research projects as well as architectural, landscape and urban projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America. SMAQ received an AR Award an a prize at the AA Environmental Tectonics Competition for their public bath in Stuttgart and the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction for their masterplan Xeritown, Dubai. Their project X-Palm was part of the Concrete Geometries Symposium.