Kathryn Findlay - architect principal Ushida Findlay Honorary Professor University of Dundee

Kathryn Findlay was born in Scotland and graduated from the Architectural Association in London in 1979. She received a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education for Post-graduate research at the University of Tokyo and worked for Arata Isozaki and Associates before establishing the Ushida Findlay Partnership in Tokyo with Eisaku Ushida. Currently she runs Ushida Findlay (UK) Ltd from London.
Kathryn was an Associate Professor of Architecture at Tokyo University until July 2001, where she supervised a design research laboratory, (the first foreigner and first woman ever to hold such a position). She was also a Visiting Professor of Architecture at UCLA, in 1999, and Technical University in Vienna 2001. She has recently been made an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee.

Ushida Findlay (UK) Ltd is known and admired in the world of architecture as an innovative practice, that has achieved success without compromise to creativity and freshness.
They enjoy regular referrals from respected professionals and peripheral bodies, who see Ushida Findlay as a competent and creative company who are disarmingly different and never fail to produce the unexpected.
Kathryn Findlay leads a team of 25 people. They are regularly featured on shortlists for prestigious competitions. Through her passion for recognising both the intellectual and the emotional dimension, Kathryn has been a major influence on the architectural practice worldwide. Her mentoring of students has encouraged her values and concepts to mushroom into accepted architectural practice. She has sufficient rigour and depth to be admired by fellow professionals, and yet, because she gets under the skin of a project, is known as the architect that normal people can like.