Craig Czarny

Principal – Urban Design

Craig is the co-founder of Hansen’s design practice and a leading urban design and landscape architectural practitioner with over 35 years of experience. His diverse career spans design practice and research, with a distinguished portfolio of local and international projects.

Recognised as a key figure in urban design in Melbourne and internationally, Craig actively contributes to the urban design and landscape architecture discourse through regular project work, publications, and conference presentations. He is a Fellow of both the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Craig has received numerous awards from local, national, and international planning and design institutions.

Craig’s work addresses a broad range of critical urban design issues facing cities, spaces, and places today. He advocates for strategic design processes and is frequently involved in large-scale land management and city design initiatives. His expertise in analysis, conceptual development, and spatial design has been key in creating innovative urban and landscape spaces across Australia, South-East Asia, North America, and South America.

In addition to his project work, Craig contributes to research and academia. He has served as a sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne and is a regular juror for local and international urban design and landscape architecture awards.

Lawrie Wilson

Principal - International Projects

Lawrie honed his skills in urban planning, development management and project facilitation in Australia and Asia before relocating to Vietnam to lead Hansen Partnership’s office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  With his extensive networks and contacts at government level, Lawrie’s expert knowledge of the local Asian business environment is invaluable making it easier to support clients through project approvals.

Lawrie’s experience includes a broad range of projects including the rehabilitation of urban areas, master planning for both new towns and resettlement programs. He has extensive experience in environmental assessment, analysis of training needs in urban development processes and planning for communities with new infrastructure, housing and investment opportunities. As the first foreign planner to be accepted as a member of the Vietnam Association of Planners, Lawrie’s knowledge and hands-on experience in countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand offers a multifaceted approach to the development sector in the Asia Pacific Region.