Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it's best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor.

Though it seems like only yesterday that the ribbon was being cut on the Bilbao Guggenheim, Frank Gehry turned 95 at the end of February.
Architecture's original enfant terrible, the charismatic scavenger who audaciously ornamented his Venice Beach house with chain-link fencing and propelled Bilbao into the European short-break big league, Gehry might now be better described as un vieux terrible, unrepentantly giving journalists the finger at press conferences and designing fatuous, limited edition handbags for Louis Vuitton.
If Gehry matches Niemeyer, that's another nine years of terrible handbags Along with others of his generation, Gehry shows no signs of easing up and going gently into that good night. At 88 years young, Norman Foster recently assumed the helm of Domus for 2024 as part of the magazine's centenary project to devolve its editorship to 10 starchitects over 10 years.
Though Foster is no longer able to pilot his own plane, he is regularly pictured on his Instagram feed being choppered over cities, sketchbook in hand, sustaining the impression that he is as engaged and productive as he ever was. Editing Domus is merely another prestigious side hustle.
Historically, architecture is an old man's game: IM Pei was 102 when he died, Philip Johnson 98, Frank Lloyd Wright 91 and Mies van der Rohe 83 (a relative ...