Masa Zivec finished her studies of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. In 2015-16 she studied at the E-Capital Start up school for cultural tourism in Ancona, Italy. From 2001 to 2007 she collaborated with Marusa Zorec.

She was awarded by the Preseren for architecture in 2012 with Marusa Zorec and Ziga Ravnikar for the reconstruction of the Castle outbuilding in Ormoz (2011) and a Plecnik's medal for reconstruction of Plecnik's house with Marusa Zorec and Matjaz Bolcina in 2016. She wonderments several competitions just to mention for the square reconstruction in Sempeter (2001) (with Domen Mozetic, Spela Jerin), for conceptual architectural solution of the fountain and the square in Solkan (with Vojteh Ravnikar and Domen Mozetic), for the castle reconstruction and the library in Ravne na Koroskem (with Marusa Zorec, Ana Kucan, Dusan Stupar), for urban settlements Dobrova and Polhov Gradec (with Marusa Zorec, Uros Rustja, Ana Golmajer, Aleksij Vicic and Tadej Bolta)and for the farewell building at the cemetery Moravce, 2015 (with Marusa Zorec, Ana Golmajer, Mark Koritnik, Tadej Bolta).