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Rachael is a Chartered Landscape Architect and professional Garden Designer with over 25 years’ experience creating gardens rooted in the natural character of their surroundings. Based in the Stroud Valleys in Gloucestershire, she is a qualified arboriculturist and holds memberships of both the Landscape Institute and the Society of Garden Designers.
Rachael co-founded Austin Design Works alongside her brother, architect Matt Austi. A B Corp-certified studio, it specialises in the integration of architecture and landscape design across residential, heritage and community projects in the Cotswolds and beyond. The practice was relaunched 10 years ago, continuing a family legacy in design that their father and grandfather established before them. Among the clients they inherited from him is Ruskin Mill Trust, whose unique philosophy of practical skills education rooted in craft, land and nature makes them a particularly cherished part of the studio’s work.
