Ushida Findlay Architects : Architecture Information

Key Projects Ushida Findlay went into voluntary liquidation in June 2004 - see lower down this page for details. Featured Buildings, alphabetical: Homes for the Future, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland, UK 1999 Ushida Findlay: Homes for the Future Ushida Findlay - featured project: Homes for the Future 'The Hill' - proposal, Potters Field, southeast London 2007- Fieldwork image from University of Dundee PR 081007 Public building focusing on sensory experiences adj. Tower Bridge, for Simon Elliot Ushida Findlay Partnership Kathryn Findlay, 1953- Eisaku Ushida 1954- The Tokyo-based Ushida Findlay Partnership was set up in 1987 by the Japanese architect Eisaku Ushida and the Scottish architect Kathryn Findlay. Ushida and Findlay are former associates of Japanese architect Arata Isozaki (1976-82). Ushida Findlay (also known by some as Ushida & Findlay Architects) work is characterised by plasticity: one of their most noted works is the fluid, organic project entitled Truss Wall House. However, the fluidity and boldness of the Japanese projects does not seem to have been expressed in their Homes for the Future housing. Ushida Findlay Architects: Homes for the Future This housing project is orthogonal save the semicircular balconies.....which face north. The Ushida & Findlay building is reminiscent of CZWG's Cascades, Isle of Dogs in basic massing and is probably designed to harmonise with the adjacent building heights onto Glasgow Green and then softly step down to the internal postage stamp of greenery, out of some kind of respect. Ushida Findlay were however also working on a Maggies Centre in Wishaw (now carried on by Reiach and Hall Architects, Edinburgh) and Granton Strand, Edinburgh so we will await with relish whether they can show more integrity with their oriental legacy. 1986 Creation of Ushida Findlay Partnership in Tokyo Ushida Findlay - Teaching Positions Eisaku Ushida 1999 Professor - UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 1976 Tokyo University, Japan - Diploma Kathryn Findlay 1999 Professor - UCLA, Los Angeles, USA 1998 Professor - Tokyo University, Japan 1979 Architectural Association, London - Diploma Ushida Findlay - Key Projects 2004 Maggies Centre, Wishaw, UK 2004 Granton Strand, Edinburgh, UK 1999 Homes for the Future, Glasgow, UK 1999 Hopton Street loft residential interior, Thames, London, UK 1998 Billiard Hall & House, Nagoya, Japan 1998 Kumamoto Artpolis Park Management Office, Kumamoto, Japan 1997 Polyphony House, Osaka, Japan 1997 Financial Times Millenium (Inhabitable) Bridge Competition, London, UK 1995 Housing Prototype 1, Osaka, Japan 1994 Soft and Hairy House, Ibaraki Prefecture, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki, Japan 1994 Kaizankyo company villa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan 1994 Spiral Wall House, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan 1994 House for the Third Millenium, London, UK 1993 Chiaroscuro House, Tokyo, Japan 1993 Truss Wall House, Machida-city, Tokyo, Japan 1991 Vertical Horizon, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Yokohama Sportsman Club, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 1989 Echo Chamber, Tokyo, Japan 1989 Park Museum City, Japan More projects online soon Modern Houses

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