— Focus feeds achievement For as long as Dylan Findlay can remember, architecture has been his passion. The Master of Architecture student was first awarded a Carey Lyon Scholarship in 2015 while completing his undergraduate studies. “I grew up surrounded by family friends that were architects. And I got taken into their offices, and saw the big drafting tables. That is really what captured my imagination. “The first year of uni, I was eating baked beans three times a week! Then when the scholarship came it paid for better living, spending more time at university – not having to worry about my finances all the time. I could really just focus on what needed to be done. “It also allowed me to take some studios that I couldn’t have otherwise afforded. I am planning a semester on exchange and the scholarship is a cornerstone to that adventure. “The scholarship opens up so many opportunities I wouldn’t have even looked at. “The money is one thing, but the currency of those experiences that have been awarded is something that you can’t really put a price tag on because that has really contributed to so much of who I am now and what I’m interested in.” Dylan now works for Carey Lyon’s award-winning architectural practice, Lyons, which is responsible for the soon-to-be-opened New Academic Street on the Melbourne City campus.
Thanks to Carey Lyon The Carey Lyon Scholarship is made possible by a generous donation from Carey Lyon, Director of one of Australia’s leading architectural practices, Lyons. Carey is an alumnus of RMIT, having completed his Master of Architecture in 1992.
05 Dylan Findlay, pictured in Building 10, New Academic Street, Melbourne City campus. Photo by Emma Phillips (Bachelor of Fine Art, Hons, 2016).
