Interior Architecture The Glasgow School of Art

Overview

The Interior Architecture from The Glasgow School of Art it focuses on spatial design, material performance, and human experience, treating the interior as a site of innovation and social engagement. Students work within GSA’s creative community to develop critical, sustainable, and technically informed design responses to contemporary challenges. 

The curriculum integrates studio practice with architectural technology, history, and theory, encouraging students to think architecturally from the inside out—examining thresholds, materials, and the relationships between people and space. Through projects in adaptive reuse, transformation, and atmosphere, students cultivate the skills needed to design regenerative and inclusive environments. 

Graduates leave as confident, climate-conscious, and collaborative designers prepared for diverse careers in interior or architectural practice.

The aims of the Programme are to enable students to:

• Critically engage with interior architecture as a mode of architectural thinking focused on the design of building interiors and their material, environmental, and experiential qualities.
• Develop as emergent, self-reflective interior architects whose creative practices are inclusive, ethical, collaborative, and iterative, evidenced through spatial design propositions that integrate architectural technology, environmental responsibility, and user experience.
• Build foundational and emergent research skills through critical engagement with design, theory, and technology, communicated via a range of visual, verbal, spatial, and immersive media.
• Communicate interior architectural ideas and design strategies effectively to diverse audiences through both digital and analogue methods of representation, including advanced modelling, parametric design, and immersive techniques.
• Acquire the core skills of interior architectural design, representation, and communication within studio-based learning, supported by workshops that explore construction detailing, material systems, building performance, and adaptive reuse.