If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Interior architecture is a distinct and separate discipline to architecture. Its specific focus is the creation of innovative and exciting interior spaces, primarily through the adaptation and spatial manipulation of existing buildings.
The course is concerned not just with physical intervention but also with how space is understood and occupied. The course implicitly embeds issues of sustainability, through its concern with reuse, and refurbishment, as well as the critical ability to respond appropriately to a given context.
It is interdisciplinary in its outlook and acknowledges the importance of other closely related areas, including interior design, exhibition design, set and lighting design, retail and product design, interior conservation as well as multidisciplinary and traditional design practice.
The Interior Architecture BA course is designed to equip you with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge required to pursue a career in interior architecture and design-related fields and/or go on to further awards in tertiary education, most typically a Master's qualification.
The design modules promote creativity, aesthetic sensibility and intellectual enquiry, together with the skills needed to work individually and in groups in developing design proposals.
The work produced in the design studios forms the basis of your design portfolio through which you will prepare for practice/employment, or in support of your application for postgraduate study. Technical skills, cultural context, design management and economics, and the commercial aspect of interiors necessary for practice are integrated with design projects.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
A History of Architecture
Introduction to Technical Studies for Interior Architecture
Studies in Design: Design Fundamentals
Studies in Design: Design Strategies
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Architectural History and Urbanism
Exhibition and Spatial Design
Studies in Design: Culture and Alteration
Studies in Design: Material and Detail
Time-based Media: Film
Credit Level 5
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Illustrated Research Essay
Practices
Studies in Design: Spatial Narratives
Studies in Design: Thesis Project
Credit Level 6
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles in fields such as:
Conservation and heritage
Exhibition design
Interior architecture and design
Lighting design
Retail design
Graduate employment
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
Perkins & Wills
Foster + Partners
Make Architects
YourStudio
Pippa Nissen Architects
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
