Obituary for Kathryn Findlay by Edwin Heathcote. You have to sign up (free) to read FT, so here are some extracts... The self-deprecating and witty Findlay, who has died aged 60 of a brain tumour, lacked the arrogance architects seem to require to become stars. But she had the talent and tenacity that could have merited greater success and wider acclaim. Born on January 26 1953 in Forfar, Scotland, where her father was a sheep farmer, Findlay – like many architects of her generation – found her success abroad. Tokyo, with its tradition of innovative one-off houses and its radically modern cityscape, would prove far more receptive to her enquiring, often eccentric and occasionally brilliant architecture. This is the project I worked on with her... next some photos: Their first acclaimed building was the Truss Wall House (1993) in Tokyo, in which a complex carapace of walls, like an eroded sea shell, enveloped a cluster of womblike rooms. Stairs, handrails, roof terrace and walls were conceived as a continuous surface in an almost unsettlingly seamless form; interior melded into exterior and detail segued into structure. It prefigured a fluid aesthetic enabled by advances in computer software.
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