5000 Level Interior Architecture Course Descriptions

INARC 5010
Graduate Interior Architecture Seminar I
This studio is required for graduate students in interior architecture in their first semester. The studio, which meets two days a week with the faculty (6 credit hours), trains students to develop a conceptual and artistic voice in their designs. Guest artists, designers, and architects also work with the students on focused investigations. Weekly critique sessions provide an opportunity for theoretical explorations and class interchange of ideas. Fulfills the requirement for Grad Project credit.

INARC 5011
Graduate Interior
Architecture Seminar II
A continuation of INARC 5010 required for graduate students in their second semester. Fulfills the requirement for Grad Project credit. Prerequisite: INARC 5010.

INARC 5020
Educative Exhibit Design
This course evaluates the evolution of displays of collections, from traditional to interactive to immersive. Case studies and field trips to the many museums around Chicago will complement lectures and seminars with collaborators in exhibition designing. Students will inquire into the needs and desires of developers, curators, interpreters and visitors. A collaborative exhibit will be created by the class and developed into an ongoing exhibition web site.

INARC 5030
From the Physical to the Virtual
Technology is gaining an ever-increasing role in the development of architecture and art as they incorporate and rely on digital means of representation, production, and interaction. It is necessary to define to what degree technology determines appearance, construction, content, representation, interactivity, and form. This course will concentrate on developing a discourse around the mediation of art and architectural practices figured through technologies. Students will challenge and inform the ideas and organizing principles aligned with and defined by the physical and the “virtual” coming together. This course is structured to advocate explorations and experimentation while maintaining an analytic framework to assist in the development of texts, objects, spaces, and/or environments.