The Clark and Laura Boyce Gallery

On View: January 28–February 28

Lecture: January 28, 3:30 p.m.

Reception: January 28, 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Interiors Under Construction explores the interior as an active, evolving system shaped by bodies, labor, materials, and emerging technologies. Through drawings, models, and spatial experiments, the exhibition reframes partitions, assemblies, and construction processes as sites of agency and speculation. The work invites viewers to see interiors not as finished products, but as provisional, inhabited, and continually becoming.

Ria Bravo, Interior & Architectural Designer, will give the spring 2026 Nadine Carter Russell Chair Lecture “Interiors Under Construction” to the LSU College of Art & Design Wednesday, January 28 at 3:30 p.m. in 130 Nicholson Hall. A free, public reception will follow the lecture in The Clark and Laura Boyce Gallery located in Julian T. White Hall.

Ria Bravo is an architect, interior designer, builder, and educator whose work challenges traditional boundaries between construction and design. She is the founder and principal of Ria Bravo Design, a studio recognized for its hands-on, materially driven approach to architecture and interiors. Her work spans residential renovations, boutique commercial spaces, and custom-designed furniture, unified by a commitment to craft, material intelligence, and human experience.

Born and raised in Tennessee, Bravo received her undergraduate in interior design and graduate education in architecture before working at Gensler and Morphosis Architects, where she contributed to high-profile cultural and institutional projects. These formative professional years cultivated her ability to move fluidly between conceptual design, technical documentation, and site execution—a skillset she has expanded through her own design-build practice.

Her work has been informed by extensive research into construction labor, interior partitions, embodied experience, and the poché as an occupied spatial condition. As an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at the University of Texas at Austin, Bravo’s teaching explores the intersection of making, theory, and the body—often through full-scale fabrications, material investigations, and collaborative design-build installations.

Her projects and pedagogical work have been recognized within interior design and architecture circles for advancing a mode of practice that is as intellectually rigorous as it is practical. She is currently developing new research and built work that examine the future of interior construction, domestic typologies, and designer-led development models.