While Findlay was studying at the Architectural Association, she was tutored by Peter Cook, Christine Hawley, and Leon Van Schaik.
She was appointed as the first female academic in the Department of Architecture at the Tokyo University and the first foreigner to teach there since the 19th century Meiji Period.
[5] The practice also undertook a number of other projects that were not realized, including one for a country house in a radical 'starfish' design in Cheshire, and another for a Maggie's cancer centre for Wishaw hospital, Lanarkshire.
[6] In 2012 Findlay worked as a delivery architect for Anish Kapoor's monumental ArcelorMittal Orbit for the London Olympics.
[5] Just hours before her death on 10 January 2014, Findlay was awarded the 2014 Jane Drew Prize 'for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture'.