background info -bbc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/architecture/nwp_findlay.shtml

Kathryn Findlay[Broadcast on 30th June]

Paul Finch introduces Findlay's workKathryn Findlay in conversation with Sarah Dunant

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.

Kathryn is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Tokyo University, where she supervises 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 has recently been made an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. She has been a Visiting Professor to the Technical University in Vienna during this Spring. Kathyrn Findlay is currently based in London, and has recently completed her post as Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo.