Founded in 2019, RIA BRAVO DESIGN is a multidisciplinary design-build studio that integrates design, research, and construction into a unified practice. The studio specializes in  residential and commercial projects where material experimentation, rigorous spatial thinking, and on-site craft converge. Rooted in a design-build ethos, the practice approaches each project as both conceptual inquiry and physical production—linking drawing, fabrication, and construction into a continuous, hands-on process. Originally established in Los Angeles and now based in Austin, Texas, the studio works across the United States on renovations, adaptive reuse, interior architecture, and bespoke furniture. With an emphasis on intimate scale, Ria Bravo Design cultivates spaces that merge architectural clarity with the embodied experience of interiors, advancing a practice that is both inventive and grounded in the realities of building.

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The studio’s work draws from Ria’s experience at Gensler and Morphosis Architects, where she developed a sensitivity to craft, detail, and systems-thinking that continues to inform the practice. Today, the studio is distinguished by its integrated delivery model—design and construction led under one roof—allowing for precision, efficiency, and a high degree of authorship across every phase of work.
 

RIA BRAVO
 

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.