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Interior Architecture
Interior architecture is the art of spatial investigations and interventions.
Sustainability, interaction design, and immersive environments are all
emerging realms of practice in interior architecture. Motion analysis
and user interactivity are studied using state-of-the-art digital technology.
Artists, designers, and architects join students in a common graduate
studio at the School to share theoretical readings and cultural contexts,
in a series of created and constructed projects. Digital explorations
are realized along with drawn and modeled work, and work built at a
range of scales. Students participate in interdisciplinary critiques
and work with professional architects and designers. The first year
culminates with a public installation of projects. Art, architecture,
and design history courses complement the studio work in addition to
design seminars. Students also take fine art and design classes from
other areas of the School.
During the second year, students concentrate on individual work. Students
prepare and propose thesis statements for the interior architecture
graduate adviser(s) and select advisers from other departments whose
areas of expertise pertain to the student’s direction. Meeting
weekly in a shared studio context, students work on independent projects,
developing interior architecture in expanded practice.
Equipment and facilities include:
Materials and samples library; Macintosh computer lab, color printers,
slide scanner, flatbed scanner, digital video editors, CD-ROM writers;
35mm copy camera and stand; common graduate studio with drafting tables,
parallel rules, slide projectors, lighting lab, video recording equipment;
photographic lighting equipment, lecture room, and critique and exhibition
space.
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