Sophie Schrattenecker was born in Upper Austria and grew up in Vienna. Between 2008 and 2009 she lived and worked in Ecuador. After returning, Sophie studied architecture at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, and did field research on Southern American bamboo constructions in Ecuador and Columbia in 2013.

As second course of studies she signed in for Classical and Ancient Studies in Salzburg, Austria, from 2015 to 2017.

Sophie finished her Master of Architecture in 2017 with a design and research thesis about the Cañada Real, an informal settlement located at the outskirts of Spain’s capital city Madrid.

In 2018 she completed a postgraduate master in Architecture and Historic Urban Environments at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Sophie currently lives and works in Vienna and Linz, Austria.