Charrette Exhibition

For the first time, the MA Interior Design and MA Interior Architecture and Interior Design programs present the collective outcomes of the Fall 2025 charrettes in a public exhibition. Over the course of just five intensive days each fall semester, students from both the first and third semesters work across four distinct design challenges, each exploring relevant topics in interiors discourse.

The charrette is an intense, collaborative design workshop rooted in the Beaux-Arts tradition. The goal is to push students to work together to translate complex ideas into tangible interior interventions. Originally named after the carts (charrettes) that rushed student drawings to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, this pedagogical model emphasizes rapid iteration, collective energy and creative problem solving.

This year's charrettes included ‘The Unfinished: Interior Urbanism’, taught by Ajmona Hoxha; ‘Creatures of Tempelhof’, taught by Bika Rebek; ‘Breathing Encounters: The Space Between Us’, taught by Paula Vidal; and ‘Together3: Building Social Space’, taught by Tina Buß. From reimagining Tempelhof’s dormant structures to designing inflatable meeting points, from transforming urban interstices to creating neighborhood hubs, each charrette explores what it means to bring interior thinking into dialogue with the public realm. The resulting projects capture an expanded approach to interiors: a practice that looks beyond four walls to engage with the social, political and material conditions of the urban environment.