Austin is a multi-disciplinary creative, with passions in architectural design, narrative writing, painting, and building. These ideas stem from a core principle, that making is thinking, and thinking is good. It is through this lens that he works, challenging design to be a critical tool to improve our environments, both ecological and constructed.

In 2024, Austin graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture and a minor in Creative Writing. In his thesis, Motel Sunrise, California Sunset, Austin explores a history of migration along Route 66 and the midcentury American idealism that led to the boom and inevitable bust in highway towns across the American southwest. The culmination of this thesis formulated in the writing of a short story documenting a deeply personal future unlocking memories and parafictions through abandoned motels in Tucumcari, New Mexico.  

Austin is the founder of Revision, an independent architectural journal that attempts to reframe the mundane histories of the built environment, and connect them to vast timelines of their specific geographies. The journal's goal is to tell the memories held within unsuspecting buildings' walls; and situate these stories in the broader context of contemporary life.

Austin is currently an architectural designer with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill in their New York office. He worked with various architecture practices across the globe including Barkow Leibinger (Berlin), Kevin Daly Architects (Los Angeles), Studio Sean Canty (Venice), Low Design Office (Austin), and Studio Christian Wassmann (New York). In 2023, Austin constructed the models for Studio Sean Canty in the Venice Biennale exhibition, Edgar's Sheds. Austin has also collaborated with the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University and helped operate the Material Practice Facilities during his time as a student.

Austin is the author of one completed novella, The Sleepless Guards of an Empty Heart, which he self published; writing, editing, printing, and binding himself. He currently has two novels in progress.

Austin is currently based in New York and can be found galivanting in mountainous forests with his dalmatian, Roscoe, across the east coast when he is not working. 


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