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Survey of Contemporary Interior Architecture

Expand your design history knowledge. Focusing on major movements and innovations, you’ll examine the societal, political, environmental, and economic influences that impacted architecture, design, furniture, and materials from the Industrial Revolution to today.

Furniture and Case Goods Design

Turn your furniture ideas into reality. You’ll study furniture construction, details, joinery, and the materials and techniques used to create custom-made furniture. (This course is cross-listed with IAD 663.)

Materiality: FF and E, Finishes and Lighting

Put your sense of materiality and product knowledge to work. You will select finishes, fabrics, and furnishings based on aesthetics, durability, and environmental factors to produce specifications and construction drawings for your final thesis project.

3D Digital Modeling

Enrich your virtual environments using geometry, materials, light, and shadow. You’ll learn techniques to transform your digital spatial visualizations into rendered models of your own designs.

IAD Portfolio Preparation

Showcase your strengths, abilities, professional readiness, and personal style with a polished portfolio. You’ll develop a graphic representation that reflects your range and overall approach to projects.

Programming

Study what you want! For your thesis project, you will research the needs of a community in a building site or a specialty area to create a programming booklet and presentation of your findings. You must first pass your midpoint review.

Commercial Design Studio

Create a functional and imaginative workplace for your commercial client. In your second major studio, you’ll develop plans and drawings, select furniture and materials, and produce construction documents for a dynamic presentation based on programming and your conceptual design.

Survey of Contemporary Interior Architecture

Expand your design history knowledge. Focusing on major movements and innovations, you’ll examine the societal, political, environmental, and economic influences that impacted architecture, design, furniture, and materials from the Industrial Revolution to today.

Studio 2

Create a functional and imaginative workplace for your commercial client. In your second major studio, you’ll develop plans and drawings, select furniture and materials, produce construction documents, and produce a dynamic presentation based on programming and your conceptual design.

Theory and Movements in Traditional Interior Architecture

Know your design history and the cultural framework guiding its development. Focusing on major movements and innovations, you’ll examine the societal, political, historical, and economical influences that impacted art, architecture, design, furniture, and materials until the early 19th century.