Choice of advanced design studios offered by the Department of Interior Architecture. Details & studio descriptions are made available to pre-registered students.

Estimated Cost of Materials: Varies depending on required studio course supplies or related travel. Anticipated costs will be provided in advance, and announced during the lottery studio presentations held in the department.

Major Requirement | BFA, MDes, MA Interior Studies

Choice of advanced design studios offered by the Department of Interior Architecture. Details & studio descriptions are made available to pre-registered students.

Estimated Cost of Materials: Varies depending on required studio course supplies or related travel. Anticipated costs will be provided in advance, and announced during the lottery studio presentations held in the department.

Major Requirement | BFA, MDes, MA Interior Studies

Choice of advanced design studios offered by the Department of Interior Architecture. Details & studio descriptions are made available to pre-registered students.

Estimated Cost of Materials: Varies depending on required studio course supplies or related travel. Anticipated costs will be provided in advance, and announced during the lottery studio presentations held in the department.

Major Requirement | BFA, MDes, MA Interior Studies

This 3-credit course, offered by the Interior Architecture department, will investigate relationships between digital design processes and methods of fabrication using the CNC router. The focus of the course will be on materiality. The weekly fabrication of physical artifacts on the CNC router will be considered the primary means of knowledge acquisition. Tangible output is critical to gaining an understanding of real-world material behaviors and witnessing discrepancies between the digital and material worlds. The course will seek to exploit those discrepancies.

A sequence of three projects will incrementally develop skills with fabrication equipment, design software (Rhino3D/Grasshopper), and CAM software used to program toolpaths (VCarve). Basic software instruction will be given during class sessions. It is expected that students will locate outside tutorials as necessary to further their software knowledge. Project topics include investigating the expressive potentials of toolpaths as surface artifacts, and constructing assemblies that aggregate multiple elements. The final project will be a team collaboration, resulting in a full-scale architectural installation that affects spatial perception.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00

Elective

This course will examine the major designers working in the period 1850 to the present. Areas of study will include an examination of design related issues that will be studied in the context of their social, political, technological, and economic circumstances, as they pertain to the design culture of the period. Special emphasis will be given to the history of interior interventions, additions and renovations. Other areas of study will include the development of architectural drawing and other presentation media, and the way in which designs often evolved through committees, or ongoing consultations among the patrons, designers, administrators, and scholars. Attention will also be given to design theory, and the doctrines relating to site, orientation, proportion, decorum, and the commercial design market. A general background in the history of art and design is desirable but is not mandatory.

Open to Sophomore Interior Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Interior Studies