Interior Architecture Honours Middlesex University

Overview

Course Details

Learning on the Interior Architecture Honours offered at Middlesex University is based on a sequence of 'integrated design projects', in which you are asked to apply and demonstrate various aspects of your learning, as well as your individual creativity and originality, to specified design tasks. Projects are supplemented by a variety of lecture, seminar and workshop sessions to provide specialist skills and knowledge. Your ideas and proposals will be tested and explored in regular tutorials and reviews, in which critical evaluation, guidance and feedback is provided, and from which you will be expected to develop and improve your work.

The curriculum focuses on seven core learning strands which are developed progressively throughout all years of the course:

• Research – Cultural, historical, political and socio-economic contexts and how research and analysis of these contexts informs the design process and decision making.
• Employability – Self-evaluation and personal career development and employability opportunities within interior Design and related professions.
• Process – How the design of interiors is initiated, from the inception of a design concept through the process of design development to  resolution and communication of the design proposal.
• Practice – Professional standards and practice procedures applied to Interior Design, and how professional skills are deployed in the relationship with audiences, clients, markets, uses, consumers and participants in interior environments.
• Design – The highest standards in design, recognizing creative currency, innovation and design quality relative to contemporary Interior Design practice.
• Communication – How the design of interiors is coherently communicated and represented across a range of media and techniques, from freehand drawing to advanced visualization programmes.
• Making – The importance of materiality in interiors and how, and from what, interior environments are formed, fitted-out and finished in order for designs to function and be appropriately experienced with an economic, ethical and ecological conscience.

Career Opportunities

Graduates from the BA Interior Architecture course are equipped to fulfil design roles in interior design and architectural practices, specialist studios and consultancies, building and property companies, advisory agencies, and the design departments of public and commercial organisations. Possible careers with a degree in Interiors include:

• Interior Designer
• Interior Architect
• Interior Decorator
• Exhibition Designer
• Space Planner