Maruša Zorec graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and started her independent career after seven years of working in the bureau for the architect Vojteh Ravnikar. In 2005 she founded an architecture office Arrea and she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana since 1993. In 2001 she published a book called Oton Jugovec – the architect and prepared an exhibition on the architectural work at the Cankar Centre.

As we can read in her argument, she is mostly devoted to the renovation of spaces and cultural heritage premises, to interventions in historical ambients, from the castle at Ravne na Koroškem (2005) through the square and the construction of an altar in Brezje (2008) to the Vetrinjski dvor in Maribor (2010) and Grajska pristava in Ormož (2011), for which she received the Prešeren Fund Prize with her colleagues. Her latest realized and most popular works are the renovations of Plečnik's house and Švicarija in Ljubljana.