Interior Design News

Featuring boundary-expanding presentations, the Interior Provocations symposium, held on November 7, 2025, looks to further the scholarship of the expanding fields of Interior Design and Interior Design History through mutual collaboration and exchange.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture’s Spring 2025 Lecture Series aims to create and explore discourse on critical topics within the study and practice of architecture, design, planning and the built environment.

Practitioners and academics from across the country join The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for our Fall 2024 final reviews, Wednesday, Dec. 4 – Friday, Dec. 6.

Associate Professor of Architecture Kory Bieg and Associate Professor of Interior Design Clay Odom collaborate on their newest public art installation, Alluvial, commissioned for the tenth anniversary Creek Show on Nov. 8–16.

Assistant Professor Tara Dudley, Lecturer Mark Wolfe, and the Hogg Memorial Auditorium Renovation received awards from Preservation Austin for their efforts to build community and enhance historic spaces across Austin.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture invites applications and nominations for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track faculty position in Interior Design at the rank of Assistant Professor with the appointment starting in the fall of 2025.

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture’s Fall 2024 Lecture Series builds on the school’s ongoing exploration of issues vital to the study and practice of architecture, design, and the built environment. 

Part of a larger art installation designed by Nerea Feliz and her collaborator Joyce Hwang, the habitats will be on display at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden through October 20.

The American Society of Interior Designers recognizes Master of Interior Design student Winnie Lin for excellence in design, concept and execution.

Design Excellence awardees represent an exceptional level of accomplishment across our design disciplines.

At the School of Architecture's 111th commencement ceremony, we celebrate the accomplishments of this year's graduating class. What starts here changes the world!

For the fourth consecutive year, Metropolis Magazine recognizes several interior design students with the prestigious Future 100 designation.

Practitioners and academics from across the country join The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for our Spring 2024 final reviews, Wednesday, April 24 – Friday, April 26.

The Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser joins the Interior Design program at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for a week-long workshop and a public lecture on Wednesday, March 27.

School of Architecture alumna and Founding Principal of Rottet Studio, Lauren Rottet, gives back to the place where it all began through an endowed Texas Challenge Scholarship. This article originally appeared in the 2023-2024 issue of Platform "Civics and Placemaking."

Multispecies Lounge was created by Associate Professor Nerea Feliz and Joyce Hwang, of the University at Buffalo, through their artistic practice Double Happiness. The temporary piece was part of an exhibition by The Bentway offering a series of installations, performances, conversations, and events that considered how urban nature and the built environment can co-exist in new ways to improve public spaces in the city. This article originally appeared in the 2023-2024 edition of Platform, “Civics and Placemaking."

Plume is part of an ongoing design and research collaboration between associate professors Kory Bieg and Clay Odom. Their focus lies in translating digitally conceived prototypes into permanent, site-specific architectural works that dynamically interact with and impact urban contexts. This article originally appeared in the 2023-2024 issue of Platform, "Civics and Placemaking."

Meet Master of Interior Design Post-Professional (MID II) alumna Michelle Boyoung Huh.

Assistant Professor Ria Bravo’s design for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's Fortlandia pays homage to the classic playground staple: monkey bars.

Associate Professor Nerea Feliz designed, in collaboration with Joyce Hwang, a series of urban furnishings for The Bentway that invite interspecies encounters with urban wildlife.

Pardo engaged interior design students in a hands-on workshop exploring the MacArthur Fellow’s approach to craft and his perspective on the relationship between fine art, design, and architecture.

Interior design students embrace failure and digital technologies in visiting professor Jonathon Anderson’s Spring 2023 advanced studio.

Allison Brooks (B.Arch '00) and Michael Hsu (B.Arch '93) own two of the fastest-growing Longhorn-led businesses in the world.

For the third year in a row, interior design students from the UT School of Architecture have been named to Metropolis Magazine’s Future100, which recognizes the top graduating architecture and interior design students in North America.

A sampling of work from across the School of Architecture related to sustainability, our impact on the Earth, and how our disciplines can help build a better future.

Forty-four of the School of Architecture’s highest achieving undergraduate students will be celebrated on Saturday, April 15 at the university’s 75th annual Honors Day

The Architect's Newspaper recaps the school's "Architecture After AI" symposium and exhibition, organized by Kory Bieg, Daniel Koehler, and Clay Odom.

Part of the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places program, PLUME is tied firmly to its place at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport while reaching skyward. Interweaving both the digital and the handcrafted, the work evokes the complexity of air travel, the ephemerality of jet contrails, and the intricate iridescence of grackle feathers.

Join the school for Pardo's public lecture on Wednesday, March 29, part of a larger week-long engagement with interior design students.

Hundreds of students, employers, and alumni build connections as students explore internship and employment opportunities at the 2023 Career Fair

Joining us are Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, Alex Schweder, Jonathon Anderson, and Dr. Nelly Robles Garcia.

An interior and architectural designer with experience in academia and at world-renowned architecture firms, Bravo’s research interests are rooted in the space between interiors and architecture.

New faculty include Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ria Bravo; tenured Associate Professor and architectural historian Charles L. Davis; and our 2022-24 Emerging Scholar Tyler Swingle

The grant will help overhaul how interior design students learn about materials and materiality, as well as reframe the Materials Lab’s existing collection through the lens of circularity, embodied carbon, health, and social equity.

Awarded annually, IIDA’s Educator of the Year Award recognizes and celebrates a full-time design educator for outstanding accomplishments and a commitment to interior design education. IIDA will recognize Siddiqui during the organization’s annual meeting

The Kelly Wearstler Endowed Fund for Design Students will create new opportunities for students to expand their global perspective, seek new opportunities in the industry, and better prepare them for their careers.

This Earth Day, we’ve rounded up a sampling of scholarship and resources from across the School of Architecture that not only explores our relationship to Earth and the built environment but also how we can help build a better future for our planet.

Only 50 interior design students were selected for the exclusive list out of nearly 300 submissions from schools across the United States and Canada

The Emily Summers Fund for Craft & Artisanship in Interior Design will bring in recognized leaders and emerging voices in the fields of applied arts and design to explore craft, making, and fabrication as areas with profound potential for innovation.

To celebrate Dr. Tara Dudley's appointment as a full-time faculty member, we sat down with her to discuss her background and professional trajectory and learn more about her current and future research projects

Interior design students travel to Wyoming to consider the relationships between interiors and exterior spaces, as well as organic and inorganic spatial features, through the lens of our nation’s national park system.

The School of Architecture’s three-year Master of Interior Design becomes the only CIDA-accredited professional interior design graduate program in the state of Texas.

To celebrate Associate Professor Nerea Feliz's recent promotion, we caught up with her to learn more about her background, interests and her views on the field of interior design.

The UT School of Architecture is pleased to announce three new faculty promotions effective September 1, 2021.

Certificate Topics include Social and Environmental Equity Design, Digital Technologies, Sustainable Design, and More

Interior design students receive Honorable Mentions in "Shelter: Design With a Hurricane Shell" competition.

Q&A with Bachelor of Interior Design student Xie Maggie Hill, named to Metropolis Magazine's inaugural Future 100 list.

With students across the country returning to classes this fall, we caught up with five recent graduates of the Master of Interior Design (MID) program who are now young faculty members at other universities’ Interior Design programs.

Q&A with Master of Interior Design alumnus Georges Fares

Q&A with Master of Interior Design alumnus Cory Olsen

Q&A with Master of Interior Design alumna Elise King

Q&A with Master of Interior Design alumna Kendra Locklear Orida

Q&A with Master of Interior Design alumna Marjan Miri

ISSUE XVI receives AIA New York’s Center for Architecture’s 2020 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals.

Bug Filter will debut a new video presenting a look though a series of 15 digitally conceived, insect-inspired filters.

Join us in congratulating our faculty on their well-deserved recognition.

Three of our design disciplines are ranked as among the “Most Hired From” programs in the country within our size group: Architecture at #1, Interior Design at #3, and Landscape Architecture at #4. 

They were among only thirteen selected out of more than 200 submissions.

Of the twelve proposals submitted, only six were approved for funding, two of which involve faculty from the School of Architecture:

We are committed to preparing our students for life outside our halls – and we recently got the rankings to prove it.

The project seeks to make visible the under-acknowledged world of non-human species – particularly insects – as active participants of urban life

Estes’ project is a conceptual bookstore that takes occupants on a voyage to worlds and times beyond,

The finalists presented their projects to a panel of Austin’s leading design professionals at an event that also included mock interviews, portfolio reviews, and a panel discussion. 

UTSOA MID Graduate Receives 2019 One to Watch Award

Glass receives national ASID award for contributions to the interior design profession.

Funds will be used to purchase materials for School of Architecture seminar and studio projects, ranging from electrically conductive paint to silk fabric. 

Candidates for the scholarship must attend a CIDA-accredited school and are evaluated based upon their analysis and problem-solving skills, design development, graphic presentation, communication skills, and passion.

Kligerman is one of only 12 students nationwide awarded the prestigious scholarship 

Interior Design studio proposes designs for a cancer center serving young adults.

Interior Design student Kaylen Parker discusses her experience as an ASID portfolio finalist and how she set herself up for success:

Interior Design student Janet Chen has been awarded a $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarship in Interior Design, the largest interior design scholarship in the U.S.... 

One of three students awarded the $5000 scholarship for a project that envisions the workplace of the future.

Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, visited UTSOA to talk to students. Watch a video...

METROPOLIS Editor-in-Chief visited with interior design students to give an in-depth presentation on Olga Gueft

An exploration of light, color, and form, Flowering Phantasm is a pneumatic work, controlled by sophisticated computer-driven systems and fabricated using computer-controlled machines.

Chen’s winning submission featured a design for a restorative bath house on the upper two floors of a boutique hotel in Austin, emphasizing both beauty and the user experience.

Assistant Professor Clay Odom's "Flowering Phantasm," will be on view through January 8, 2017.

The resulting project, Serriform, is a series of eight architectural backdrops, comprised of custom-fabricated columns and robotically-painted textile panels.

In this SOA Voices, we hear from Nerea Feliz.

Dr. Nancy Panak Kwallek Endowed Chair in Design and Planning will support visiting instructors who are practitioners from design and planning fields

Interior design student team wins TRANS-PLAN international design competition

Material Grant Awards Announced

Interior design student receives $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarship in Interior Design, the largest interior design scholarship in the United States.

Two interior design students receive awards from the International Interior Design Association's (IIDA) annual Student Design competition.

Interior design student receives the first place honor, awarded one of two Gensler Brinkmann Scholarships offered annually by the highly recognized design firm.

Third-year Interior Design students selected as finalists for the prestigious Donghia Foundation Senior Scholarship Award.

Two interior design students each receive a $30,000 Angelo Donghia Senior Scholarships.