Education
Findlay graduated from the Architectural Association in London in 1979.
Findlay graduated from the Architectural Association in London in 1979.
In 1999 she returned to the United Kingdom where she had launched a new architecture company. She was Associate Professor of Architecture at Tokyo University, Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Vienna and University of California, Los Angeles, and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. The work of Ushida Findlay was variously described as neo-expressionist, organic modernist and surrealist.
lieutenant was typified by the Soft and Hairy House, built in 1994 in Tsukuba, Japan.
The roof garden was edible, surrounding a courtyard with a blue-blob bathroom protruding into the space. Findlay died in January 2014, suffering from a brain tumour.