Patama Roonrakwit studied architecture at Silpakorn University of Bangkok, and realized her master's degree in development practice under the guidance of CENDEP, at Oxford Brookes University, England. Roonrakwit has participated in more than forty housing development projects for underprivileged community and damaged villages in Thailand and constructed a shelter to help people after the tsunami in Phang-nag, a province in Southern Thailand. She was the only Thai woman architect to be selected for the final round of the arcVision Prize.
She founded CASE studio in 1997 which is a group of architects that work with an humanitarian and anthropological approach in creating appropriate housing for people.
