Bill Austin has been living in the Pioneer Valley since 1969, first as a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, then as a carpenter and builder, and since 1984 as an architect. From 1984 to 1993 he was a principal with Kitchell and Austin, Architecture and Community Design, located in the center of Amherst. From 1993 to 2000 he worked out of his home and an office in Shelburne Falls. In 2000 he bought a two-room schoolhouse in Colrain with his partner Joan Rockwell which is now the office of Austin Design, Inc. & Joan S. Rockwell & Associates.

Aaron Cusimano is a life-long resident of Colrain Massachusetts who has been drafting and managing projects for Bill since 2000 when the firm moved to Colrain.

Chris Farley is a Massachusetts licensed architect who began working for Austin Design full time in 1999 after moving to the Hilltowns from Boston and a job at Cambridge 7 Associates. His primary focus prior to working for Bill was exhibit design, including museum projects as far away as Kuwait and Alaska. He received his BArch from Carnegie Mellon University.

Andy Grogan: After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1994 with a B.A. in English, Andy spent two years restoring 18^th- and 19^th-century log structures in Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky. In 1998, he relocated to New England where he worked on a number of historic restoration projects and as a project manager for a general contractor.  Currently, Andy is working toward his Masters in Architecture at Boston Architectural College.

Grey L. Marchese is a native of Western Massachusetts. She earned her Interior Design degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is currently taking on tasks as a designer, project manager and drafter at Austin Design Inc. Grey's design intentions are to maintain the link between earth and spirit by using structure as a medium to integrate inhabitants within this dynamic.