Stephanie Kloft was born in Düsseldorf in 1970, and still living there. She is married and has 2 daughters.

After graduating from high school, she began studying architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, which she completed in Düsseldorf with 2 degrees. In 2005 she completed her studies as Dipl.-Ing. (FH) interior designer at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and in 2006 she studied architecture at the PBSA Peter Behrens School of Architecture with the title Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Architect.

During her studies, Stephanie trained as a carpenter in a Düsseldorf carpentry shop, where she learned the traditional trade.

Born in southern Germany in 1950, he moved to Tanzania with his family in 1963 because his father, a doctor, was leading the development of a public health care system around Lake Victoria. He completed his secondary education in pan-African schools in Mwanza/Tanzania and Nairobi/Kenya.

After studying architecture at the University of Stuttgart, in 1979 he started working for Lippsmeier + Partner (L+P), which specializes in tropical architecture and international exhibitions. From 1980, he was in charge of a large school construction project for German development aid in Dodoma / Tanzania for L+P and subsequently set up the L+P office in Dar es Salaam / Tanzania with 10 local employees. After his return in 1988 he became manager of the L+P office in Düsseldorf.

The MAR Architects office, which started in Düsseldorf in 1991, developed over the course of project development and contacts into a multilateral concept, design, planning and management tool that successfully implemented trade fair, exhibition and interior design projects worldwide with clients from the public and private sector.