Alexandra (Sasha) grew up in Moscow in a family of geologists. Inspired by the textures and sections of different rocks and stones, she entered the “Start” art school and then an architecture college. In 2010, she transferred to a program on the architecture of residential and public buildings at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Along with her studies she worked at AB Studio under the direction of Andrey Cheltsov. Four years later the Bernaskoni Bureau invited her to take part in the Matrex building project in Skolkovo. In 2015, after the construction of the building she started own practice with Ksenia Trofimova as a +7 ARCHITECTS. During her independent practice, she took on the challenge of working with real estate developers. In order to gain experience in this field, in 2017 she went to work for a large development company, PIK Group.