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Lim Huck Chin was born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1964. After his secondary education in Singapore and studying architecture in England and Australia, he returned to Malaysia in 1995. He has worked on conservation projects in Malacca since 1998, including the Unesco-awarded restoration of the Cheng Hoon Teng's main temple. He was council member of Badan Warisan Malaysia (Heritage of Malaysia Trust) from 2000 to 2004 where he held the education portfolio for outreach programmes. Fernando Jorge is an architect and a trained visual artist from Lisbon, Portugal, where he was born in 1970. His introduction to conservation architecture began during his stint as researcher in the Gabinete de Estudos Olissiponenses (Office of Lisboan Studies) where he spent a year documenting an 18th-century chapel in the historical centre of Lisbon. Prior to his five years' research in Malacca, he was commissioned by the Museum and Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon to develop, design and curate an exhibition celebrating the discoveries of the botanical world from the 15th to the 20th centuries by Portuguese explorers. He is an advocate for the protection of Lisbon's built heritage, in particular that of the Modern Movement. Lim Huck Chin and Fernando Jorge were part of a team which restored a Dutch-period shophouse (8 Hereen Street) in Malacca for use as a heritage resource centre. The project was undertaken by Badan Warisan Malaysia with funding awarded by the Embassy of the United States of America in Malaysia under the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation and the Ford Motor Company's Conservation & Environmental Grants Program. Upon completion of the project, they were commissioned by Badan Warisan Malaysia to curate the permanent exhibition of the restoration for display within the premises. They have also collaborated on photography exhibitions in Malaysia entitled Malacca: People, Place & Time and contributed to both Asian Geographic (Singapore) and Pública (Portugal) magazines.
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