ABSTRACT
To practise architecture is to negotiate relationships of space and time, both through the design and the practice of space. The particular circumstances of the overlaid relationships between people, space, time, and ideas construct the profession of architecture as a socialised space. The role of age in practice is particularly evident in the trajectories of women in architecture. Globally, despite near gender equivalence in architectural education, there is a significant reduction in the number of women in established roles in professional practice. The work of critical feminist thinkers picks up on the attention that age draws to the body, revealing the embodiment of architectural knowledge, aligning architectural practices with corporeal processes. Growing into it suggests that there is a perfect age for contribution, underlining an assumed correct way of doing architecture, which feminist architectural thinkers have rallied against. Growing through reveals ageing as a process of reproducing self in different roles through, and in relation to, the profession of architecture.
