Don’t Get Too Attached
Oct. 30 to Nov. 30, 2026, 5 to 7 p.m.
Beginning October 30 at 5:00 pm, Don't Get Too Attached in on view. The exhibition is designed and curated by Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ria Bravo.
Interiors are among the most frequently altered layers of the built environment, yet they are rarely constructed with change in mind. Don’t Get Too Attached begins with this contradiction, looking closely at the architectural detail and its potential to accommodate a more provisional approach to interior construction.
Through speculative sectional drawings, material investigations, and textile assemblies built at full scale, the exhibition explores how reversible joints might change the way interiors are made and remade. Borrowing from the language of garments and temporary structures, the work examines six modes of attachment: buttoned, clipped, hinged, laced, socketed, and zipped. Don’t Get Too Attached imagines an interior that is never quite finished, one that can be adjusted, taken apart, and reassembled by the people who inhabit it.
Organized by Ria Bravo, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, the exhibition includes research and drawings developed with Graduate Research Assistant Tran Do (M.Arch. ’27) and full-scale prototypes produced in collaboration with students in the Interior Fabrications seminar.
About the Exhibitor
Ria Bravo is a designer, educator, and researcher trained in both architecture and interior design. She is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where her research focuses on provisional methods of interior construction, architectural representation, and material assembly. Her work moves between speculative drawing, experimental fabrication, and full-scale installation, questioning how the details of construction influence the ways interiors are made, experienced, and changed over time.
Bravo holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design and a Master of Architecture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before joining UT Austin, she practiced at Morphosis and Gensler in Los Angeles. Her creative scholarship has received recognition from the Interior Design Educators Council, and in spring 2026 she held the Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University.
