Marko Studen is the founder and director of Scapelab. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Architecture and GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. For some years he was director of European Slovenia, an international housing competition project , and taught at both the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and the University of California. He is a co-editor of the book Uropean Urbanity: Europan 7 and 8, Austria and Slovenia (Springer Verlag, 2006). He has won numerous awards and commendations at architectural competitions.