Timothy Hubbard is a retired architect but continues as a consultant planner in the conservation of historic buildings, gardens, sites and landscapes.  One of his special interests is the use of historic places as tourism assets.  Alone and in association he has authored over one hundred heritage studies, conservation management plans and research reports.  Most recently with Annabel Neylon, Kelly Wynne and others he completed Stage 2 of the Glenelg Shire Heritage Study, Stages 3a and 3b of the Warrnambool Heritage Gap Study, Stage 1 of the Corangamite Heritage Study and the Review of Heritage Overlays in Port Fairy.  His firm also wrote Jaffas Down the Aisle (2008), a comparative analysis of cinemas in rural Victoria for Heritage Victoria.  He was, until June 2010, heritage adviser to Colac-Otway, Corangamite, Glenelg, Moyne and Southern Grampians Shires and to the City of Warrnambool.  He was also heritage architect for the Royal Melbourne Zoo and supervised the conservation of its historic carousel.  He is now a member of Mint Inc., a committee of management under the Crown Lands (Reserves) Act 1978.

Before establishing his own practice as a consultant in 1988, he worked with the Department of Planning during the formative years of the Historic Buildings Council and conservation planning controls under local planning schemes.  He is a Fellow of the RAIA and from 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the RAIA Victorian Chapter Council.  He has been a guest editor for Architect and has been the Chairman of the Conservation category for the Institute's Awards.  He was the founding chairman of the RAIA (Vic) Heritage Committee and wrote the Institute's first national Heritage Policy.  From 1999 until 2002, he was an alternate member to the Heritage Council of Victoria.  He sat on its Finance and Landscape Committees and has written articles for its newsletter Inherit.  In 2005, he was convenor of the Australia ICOMOS national conference Corrugations: the Romance and Reality of Historic Roads.  He also helped convene the 2010 conference in Broken Hill, Outback and Beyond and is co-convenor of the Australia ICOMOS/National Trusts of Australia joint conference Watermarks, Water's Heritage, Melbourne 2011  He was a member of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee 2005 to 2010. 

For many years, Timothy Hubbard led cultural tourism tours within Victoria, interstate, to Norfolk Island and overseas.  He is currently restoring Old St Andrews, the former Presbyterian Church and Manse at Port Fairy where he now lives.  In 1992, he completed a Masters thesis on House Museums and Land Use Planning.  He passed his Ph.D. in architectural history at Deakin University in 2003, which was completed with the assistance of an Australian Postgraduate Award.  The thesis, about the Italianate villa in the colonial landscape, is titled Towering Over All.  His academic research continues into the Tasmanian architects, William Archer and James Blackburn.  In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural ISSI Leslie M. Perrott Travelling Fellowship to study historic roads in the US, UK and Europe.