Matt Chan, Founding Principal

Nominated Architect NSW 6421

Matt Chan is a multiple award winning architect with 20 years of project experience in Australia, the Netherlands and the Middle East.

Matt has been recognised for excellence in practice, research, education, and professional leadership. He has received awards for residential and public projects, such as the Australia Street Infants School COLA. In 2011 Matt was presented the NSW Emerging Architect Prize by the Australian Institute of Architects.

Matt’s project experience includes design, management and coordination across all scales of projects, from bespoke houses and small scale public projects to large-scale master planning. He has extensive experience with multi-disciplined design teams, working collaboratively to deliver design excellence.

Matt’s contribution to the public discourse includes exhibitions, talks and academia. His work has been exhibited both locally and internationally including the 2008 Venice International Architecture Biennale.

Matt Chan is an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.

Georgie Forbes-Smith, Associate Director

Georgie joined Scale in 2015. She holds a Bachelor of Design in Architecture 2013 and a Master of Architecture 2016 from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining Scale, Georgie was an Architectural Assistant for Tanner Kibble Denton Architects where she worked on a series of residential projects and the mixed-use development of Goonoo Goonoo Station in Tamworth.

In 2017, Georgie was awarded the Architects Medallion by the NSW Architects Registration board for her graduating project ‘Architecture of Measure : A Museum of Space and Time’, recognising her as the top graduate from the four schools of architecture in NSW. She was also awarded the Innovation in Architectural Design Prize for her final project and was recognised on the Dean’s List of Academic Excellence at the University of Sydney.

Georgie is also an architectural educator at the University of Sydney and the Universtiy of Technology Sydney. Her recent Master of Architecture studio titled ‘Architecture’s Agency in Repair’ advocates for a greater role for architecture to actively engage with the social, cultural, economic and environmental repair of the context in which it is embedded.

Srilalitha Yeleswarapu, Graduate of Architecture

Sri is a recent graduate with a Master of Architecture 2024 from the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture 2020 from India and worked two years at Bengaluru based architecture practices specialising mainly in residential, commercial and interior architecture. She is a registered architect with the Council of Architecture, India.

For her master’s thesis at the University of Sydney, Sri’s project ‘Re-Dream’ envisioned healing of what has been contaminated at Cockatoo Island, through a revival of symbiotic habitats. The project called for a shift in perspective where architectural design assumed a role for regeneration and repair for a new reality beyond human use. Inspired by the stories of indigenous Dreamtime, and through themes of reflection and reconciliation, Sri’s proposal revitalised the abandoned and dilapidated regions of the island to preserve its memory and sanctity.