Architecture Quote by Christopher Bailey

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of…

— James Pearse Connelly

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

— Carol Ross Barney

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work.…

— Denise Scott Brown

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior…

— Tadao Ando

My father was an architect.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

— Bobby Seale

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

— Renzo Piano

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some…

— John Gourley

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed…

— Hussein Chalayan

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind…

— David Lynch

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor…

— Javier Zanetti

I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I…

— David Adjaye