S. Austin Ward is a Senior Associate, involved in all aspects of design, management, and execution across our portfolio with over a decade of experience delivering award-winning projects for civic, cultural, and institutional clients throughout the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, Austin has worked on Downtown Cary Park, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the New Bedford Art Museum, and multiple U.S. Embassy projects for the Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations.   

Austin is an architect and urban designer whose work is driven by the desire to generate meaningful work of enduring value, believing that public architecture is essential to the civic identity and the cultural vitality of our communities. In addition to practice, he is an Adjunct Professor at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, focusing on issues of housing and urbanism.  

He holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he received the Award for Outstanding Leadership in Urban Design. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design.