"There are architects who begin the process by discovering a new way of glazing or framing.
Hadid knew she wanted to be an architect "by the time I was eleven or twelve years old".
She might be an architect by trade — but it's her nomadic spirit that infuses her talent for making collectible design look like it belongs anywhere.
Sanders, who wrote a documentary series about New York with Ric Burns, is an architect by trade and a sociologist by extension, and architecture is where his strength lies.
In France, restoration of protected buildings must be overseen by a state-certified architect.
In Los Angeles, even a treehouse may be designed by an architect.
"He's an architect by trade," said Tony, "so he was thinking more about building stability during earthquakes".
Sahni is an architect by training, but while teaching Indian cooking on the side, she was "discovered" in 1974 and written about in The Times by Florence Fabricant.
I'm an architect by training and I like seeing new places and how they are designed, so I don't really mind the travel.
"Right now there are so many inefficiencies in constructing products," Michelle Kaufmann, the co-founder (pictured) who is an architect by training, tells me.
