Prior to retirement, architecture professor Anne Munly reflects on career Wendy Wang | Staff Photographer Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. Anne Munly attributes her interest in architecture to a friend who once brought a T-square ruler with him to high school. At the time, girls were discouraged from pursuing fields such as architecture, but the explanation her friend gave of the T-square intrigued her. “I said, ‘Well, what do you do with that?’ And he explained, ‘For drawing,’” Munly said. “But girls weren’t allowed to take those classes, so it was kind of mysterious to me.” When it came time to choose a college, Munly selected the University of Virginia with a major in architecture. She was unsure that it would be the right fit — but it was. After graduating from UVA, Munly earned her master’s degree in architecture from Princeton University and worked at an architecture firm before returning to Princeton as a professor.