If You Can Design Great Buildings, Architecture Doesn't Care How Short You Are

Could architecture be perhaps the most merit-focused profession out there? Somehow bucking trends and ignoring every other aspect of a person’s make up to solely focus on pure talent? Earlier this year, we passed along historian Edward Tenner‘s piece in the Atlantic that attempted to prove that the business of building is the least ageist career imaginable, with I.M. Pei and Oscar Neimeyer still hard at work in their 90s and 100s, respectively, and Frank Gehry regularly celebrated at his comparatively-youthful 81.