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3000 Level Interior Architecture Course
Descriptions
INARC 3001
Intermediate Interior Architecture I
A two-day (6 credit hour) intermediate level design studio focusing
on the design of spaces for human use—domestic, civil, and commercial.
A series of realistic design problems introduces the student to the
complex requirements of interior architectural design, including programming,
circulation, adjacencies, materials and color selection, code and barrier-free
requirements, furniture selection and layout, design theory, and others.
An equal emphasis is put on idea-making. Techniques of idea generation
and development from such diverse sources as music and sound, painting
and sculpture, materials, nature, light, analogies, metaphor, and history
are explored. Students present their projects to faculty and invited
critics to promote verbal and visual presentation skills (including
model-making and rendering). Team-taught by an architect and an interior
designer. Prerequisite: INARC 1002, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
INARC 3002
Intermediate Interior Architecture II
A continuation of INARC 3001. Prerequisite: INARC 3001.
INARC 3004
Design with Materials
This course investigates and examines materials used in the creation
and completion of interior space. Emphasis is on historical context,
style, and design influences, theatrical applications, creative use
of materials, and techniques of material construction, with attention
to detailing. Students attend and participate in lectures, field trips,
and research assignments. Through a series of design assignments, from
small-scale space transformations to full-scale installations, students
develop technical and design expertise. Prerequisite: INARC 1001 and
INARC 1002.
INARC 3010
Sketching Chicago Architecture
An elective investigation of Chicago’s architectural history through
on-site drawings of the interiors and exteriors of major landmark buildings.
Students develop skills in quickly and accurately representing architectural
form and interior space, while tracing the lineage of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Chicago architecture through graphic analysis. The
course includes lectures and daily critiques of students’ work.
Weekend field trips to sites in outlying areas may be included.
INARC 3011
Interior Architecture Summer Studio
An intense studio experience meeting three days a week for ten weeks
during summer school (6 credit hours) upon petition by seven or more
students. Team-taught by architects and interior designers, this studio
is open to students going into intermediate or advanced design studios
in the BIA program. This course has similar goals and programs as intermediate
and advanced design studios and may substitute for one semester of these
studios upon consent of the faculty. The summer studio can also be taken
for additional experience before starting a higher-level studio. Prerequisite:
INARC 1002 and INARC 2002.
INARC 3015
Spatial Animation
Traditional and digital animation avenues are covered in this intermediate
level class. Digital editing, compression, storage, and NTSC printing
are covered, using software programs such as Elastic Reality, Premiere,
and After Effects, to organize spatial animations. Storyboarding, rotoscoping,
pans, walkthroughs, image animation techniques, chroma key, and other
special transitions are explored in multimedia exercises using graphics,
text, drawings, narrations, and sound.
INARC 3020
Stage Set Design
This class offers an overview of the art of setting the stage. Review
of the archive of opera, theater, and stage set design at the Harold
Washington Library is complemented with backstage tours of Chicago theaters.
Students are introduced to theatrical lighting, stage set construction,
and materials and techniques for special effects used by several set
design companies in Chicago. Students will have the opportunity to design
through drawn and computer constructs. This class is team taught by
a master craftsman in collaboration with Chicago set designers.
INARC 3025
Interactive Space
CD-ROM technology is introduced in this advanced class in interactive
spatial imaging. Macromedia Director and Director Lingo tutorials assist
the development of electronic portfolios and interactive architecture.
Optimizing quicktime files, branching, rollovers, text linkage, burning
CDs, and other digital techniques will be reviewed. A series of structured
exercises will assist the ideation, development, testing, and production
of an interactive CD.
INARC 3055
Interior Technical Practice
This course prepares students to work with professional engineers on
mechanical aspects of interior design including plumbing, electrical,
heating, and air conditioning. Students learn to understand specifications,
contracts, construction documentation, and general business practices.
Course work includes resume writing, portfolio preparation, interview
techniques, and office visits. Prerequisite: INARC 2002.
INARC 3058
The Ethical Imagination
This seminar will explore the need for and the development of a design-ethical
imagination. The ethical imagination is critical awareness of the need
to respect immanent relationships between persons, nature, and the artificial,
the understanding that design has unique responsibilities in shaping
these immanent relationships, and is a mode of empowerment for how the
individual artist and designer can become a creative and political instrument
of change. Working from new ideas about ethics, as well as exploring
the work and writings of contemporary designers and architects concerned
with these issues, the course will explore how ethical notions can be
implemented into meaningful and sustainable advocacy for change and
can inform and give direction to studio practice. Field trips to demonstration
sites and visits with key persons engaging ethically and politically
with the status quo will form part of the course.
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