Nicole Maurer Lemmens (NL,1969) was born in Southern Dutch Limburg. She grew up in a border region, located between Aachen (Germany), Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands). She studied architecture, urban planning, and building science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She graduated cum laude in 1998. Her thesis on the relationship between identity and spatial environment, which was nominated for the National Archiprix. As a lecturer, she teaches at various academies and universities in the Netherlands and Germany. Since 2020, she has been a research associate at the RWTH Aachen Chair and Institute for Urban Planning. She is a member of several advisory committees and boards. As director, she leads Maurer United, with projects in regional planning, urbanism, public space, architecture, interior architecture and exhibition design.

Marc Maurer (NL,1969) was born in Eindhoven and grew up in Germany. After high school, he moved to his hometown in the Netherlands. He studied architecture, urban planning, and structural engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1995 he received a master’s degree for his thesis on the relationship between architecture and ‘urban culture’. His thesis was awarded a nomination for the National Archiprix and a nomination for the NPS Culture Award. In collaboration with graffiti artists ZEDZ and Boris ‘DELTA’ Tellegen, he received the National Millennium Culture Prize. He co-founded initiatives such as Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), Dutch Design Exchange (Maastricht), and Stichting Street Art (Heerlen). As a director, he manages Maurer United, with a special interest in architecture, fine art, sampling, and typography.