SHOT OUT OF AN EDUCATION SYSTEM DRUNK ON DESIGN AND QUICK-FIRE PROJECTS, WE LAND STRAIGHT INTO THE REALITIES OF PRACTICE

摘要

Leafing through a back catalogue one recent Sunday afternoon for the 40 Under 40 Awards, which celebrate promising young architects, it struck me that, with an age criterion of under 40 for the awards, architects seem to have a strange conception of the category 'young'. Not that I want anyone to take this the wrong way: we're all as young as we feel and once I approach that age limit I will be the first to say it again. But, considering that the majority of applicants are between 35 and 40, what bothers me is where that leaves all the others, like me, between the ages of 25 and 35. Where's our category? What's our title?