Hugo Chan is the Director and Architect of StudioHC, driven by research interests primarily focused around ecological and cultural sustainability, examining how practitioners can reimagine our cities through critical interrogation and engagement with social and cultural histories of place. With a background in architecture and environmental law, Hugo is also the Architect & Associate - Operations of Cracknell & Lonergan Architects a firm he has been with since 2011, focusing primarily on conservation, planning, environmental law and urban residential development.Between 2010-2012, Hugo worked between Hong Kong and Sydney, obtaining experience in the fields of architecture, construction coordination and client-end project management. Since 2016, he has served as a sessional academic at UNSW Built Environment, teaching in history and theory of architecture across the undergraduate and postgraduate programs and since 2020, he has regularly served as a design studio tutor focusing on urban renewal and public architecture. Hugo has been a regular contributor to the Architecture Bulletin, the quarterly journal of the Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter. He has also served as an observer member of the Institute's Heritage Committee (NSW) and since 2023, has been the EmaGN representative on the Institute's National Heritage Committee.Upon being awarded the 2017 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship to undertake a significant project entitled: Alternative Realities | Approaches to Adaptive Reuse in Architecture. Over fifteen weeks in 2018, Hugo travelled between Hong Kong, London, New York and Sydney to examine forty case studies and interview over twenty architects. His first public presentation of this research project was showcased in August 2018, where Hugo was a speaker as part of the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning's Centenary Symposium on Cathedral Thinking. Hugo was also an inaugural recipient of the Alastair Swayn Foundation’s Strategic Research Grant, undertaking a research investigating the history and development of high-rise residential architecture, which was published in October 2021 as Hope in High-Rise | An Exploration of Urban Density in Apartment Design. Subsequently, Hugo was also awarded the NSW Australian Institute of Architect’s David Lindner Urban Renewal Research Prize, and is currently focusing his research on the subject of Architecture & Belonging | An Exploration of Designing for Cultural Diversity.