Craig Czarny

Principal – Urban Design

Craig is co-founder of Hansen’s design practice and a leading urban design and landscape architectural practitioner with over 35 years’ experience across design practice and research with an outstanding array of local and international project experience.

Craig is a highly regarded contributor to the urban design and landscape debate in Melbourne and overseas through regular project work, publications and conference presentations. He is a PIA and AILA Fellow and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. He is also the recipient of numerous planning and design awards from Local, National and International planning and landscape architectural Institutes.

Craig’s project work addresses the spectrum of critical design matters facing cities, spaces and places today. He is an advocate of strategic design processes and regularly involved in broadscale land management and city design initiatives. His expertise in analysis, conceptual development and spatial design leads to the creation of great urban and landscape spaces. This has been demonstrated in his considerable project work across Australia, South-East Asia and across North and South America.

In addition to his project work, Craig is an active contributor to research, having served as a sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne and a regular juror for both local and international urban design and landscape architectural project 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.