Maria Vidali studied architecture in the U.K. at Portsmouth University (BA), Kingston University (Diploma). She holds a Masters of Philosophy from Cambridge University in History and Philosophy of Architecture, and a PhD on ‘Liminality metaphor and place on the island of Tinos: the village of Kampos’ from the University of Thessaly in collaboration with McGill University. Also, she attended a furniture design course at Central St. Martin's College in London.

Since 2006 she has been living permanently in Athens. Her research work: Village and Land: The outlying chapels on the island of Tinos was published in December, 2009 by Futura Publications and the Municipality of Exombourgon in Tinos. Her articles and published work exist in several foreign and Greek scientific journals mainly on the subject of architecture, narratives, architectural education as well as traditional architecture and the landscape of Tinos.

In 2016, she was adjunct instructor in Drury Centre in Greece (a flagship program for Drury University of Missouri, Hammons School of Architecture). From May 2017, she has been an adjunct professor at the CYA/ DIKEMES (an educational institution for studies abroad based in Cambridge, Massachusetts). Since 2019 she taught theory and design in the School of Architecture at the University of Thessaly and landscape architecture at the University of Ioannina.

Τhe narrative of a life existing and developing within every space, community and landscape is very important to her. Three projects have been published in DOMES/ DOMA architectural magazine (The hut, Beehive, Avdos house) and two of those nominated at Doma Awards. Objects and furniture from her design collections have been displayed in the USA, Germany, Denmark, Austria, as well as cities in Greece where they have been hosted in museums' shops and galleries and websites for design work.