Jason Austin received his professional degree in Architecture from Cornell University, where he was awarded a Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Silver Medal for his undergraduate thesis. He also attended University of Pennsylvania and received his Masters of Landscape Architecture.

Professional design and construction experiences include the offices of SOM in New York, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects in Philadelphia and development company Letterman Inc in Carlisle, PA.

Jason is an assistant professor at Drexel University's Department of Architecture, having previously been adjunct faculty member at the Landscape Architecture Department at University of Pennsylvania (Penn Design) and the Tyler School Department of Architecture at Temple University, and a guest design critic at Cornell and Lehigh Universities.

With Aleksandr Mergold, he co-founded Austin + Mergold in 2008 to pursue residential, commercial, landscape and urban design projects.

Jasion Austin is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Coming from a family with two generations of architects, Aleksandr Mergold graduated from Princeton (M'ArchII) and Cornell University (B'Arch), receiving the NY chapter AIA and the Charles Goodwin Sands medals.

After working for several large architecture firms (Perkins Eastman Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects) he joined the office of Pentagram in New York where he spent six years as senior architect, working on a variety of architectural and design projects.

Since 2006 Aleksandr has been teaching at Parsons the New School for Design; in 2007 he was visiting faculty at Listaháskóli Íslands / Iceland Academy of the Arts; and was visiting assistant professor of architecture and a lecturer in Design & Environmental Analysis at Cornell. Currently Aleksandr is an assistant professor at Cornell's Department of Architecture.

In 2008 Aleksandr Mergold along with Jason Austin established architectural and landscape design practice, Austin + Mergold.

Aleksandr Mergold is a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Institute of Graphic Arts and is a LEED Accredited Professional.