chris@focusedinteraction.com, Author at Austin Design Cooperative Architecture

With assistance from VEOC, Austin Design converts to a worker co-op

Nov 21, 2022 | Announcement, Company News, Featured Post

Brattleboro, VT – This month, after a forty-year career in architecture and design, including thirty years as the owner and lead architect of Austin Design, Bill Austin has retired, leaving the firm in the skilled hands of its employees to own and operate the business...

Choosing an architect: 10 things you need to consider

Aug 12, 2021 | Thought Leadership

When you want to embark upon a building project whether a sustainable building for a municipal complex or a custom home remodel or a new pub, you need a design architect. While architects receive the training and education to craft any type of building design for you, specialties do exist.

Maine Home & Design magazine article

Mar 3, 2021 | Accolades, Residential

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Creating a Destination Brewery: Lessons from Lawson’s Finest Liquids

May 5, 2020 | Events

Austin Design Cooperative’s brewery project manager Peter Webster and Lawson’s Finest Liquids’ own Sean Lawson were selected to contribute at the 2020 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in San Antonio TX this spring. Then Covid-19 happened. CBC moved the proceedings...

On the Cover of the WMAIA Winter Newsletter

Jan 29, 2020 | Accolades

We’re on the cover of the Western Massachusetts AIA Winter Newsletter! By “we” – plural pronoun – we mean that the cover photo features both our barn-loft-home project for the Robins family in the mountains of Conway, New Hampshire and Abby the Cover Dog....