Architect Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where…

— Christopher Bailey

I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening,…

— Rachel Boston

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

— Oscar Niemeyer

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

— Cameron Sinclair

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

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 have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had…

— Bernard Arnault

My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

— Arnon Goldfinger

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

— Bryson DeChambeau

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