Karin Tehve

Karin Tehve is a Professor at Pratt Institute in New York, where she coordinates the theory and undergraduate thesis curriculum in Interior Design. She earned her Master of Architecture degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research and writing concentrates on taste, media, and identity, and their intersection with the public realm.

Karin founded her practice KT3Dllc in 2001 pursuing projects in architecture, interiors, and site‐specific art. Conference presentations include IDEC, ACSA, and Common Ground. She has published in the Journal of Design History, The Journal of Interior Design, The International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design, and Interiors Beyond Architecture. As a member of Interior Provocations, Karin is co-editor for and contributor to Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors and Appropriate(d) Interiors.

Her book, Taste, Media and Interior Design, was published by Routledge in 2023.