5 minutes with … Jelena Cousins at Cousins & Cousins

2021-03-05T06:00:00

Creative director was inspired by her parents to embark on her career but was appalled to be told by an ex-boss she could not be a good mother and a good architect at the same time

Why did you choose construction as a career?

I spent the majority of my early childhood in Italy and adored its architecture. My mother was an artist and my father a naval engineer who designed huge ships, so creating is in my blood. Galleries, museums and oil tankers (my father did take me on a couple of site visits at the later stage of construction) were equally interesting to me. Seeing our family home being built in Croatia was also a huge inspiration.

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