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.

“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.