Interior Architecture/Design

Description

Interior architects/designers create the specific character of spaces for human use and enjoyment. While the architect typically focuses on the building form and external profiles, relationships between buildings and landscape, the interior architect/designer's focus is primarily on the interior spaces of buildings. In this capacity, interior architects must understand the important role of materials, colors, textures, and light in the creation of interior spaces that respond to the physical, social, psychological, and cultural needs of building users. Working with scales that range from that of the object (furniture and light fixtures) to that of the complex whole (ordering systems and spatial sequence) the interior architect requires the knowledge of experiential, the tectonic, the technical, and the theoretical.

Because of the commonalities between the disciplines of architecture and interior architecture, students in the interior architecture program share similar professional core courses with students in architecture during the first two years of study, including the foundation design sequence and courses in digital media and the history of architecture.

As societies continue to re-examine their stock of existing buildings, the skills of interior architects/designers become increasingly important to clients seeking building conservation, preservation, and adaptive re-use.

Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA
Department: School of Architecture

Student/Faculty Ratio: 13:1

Accreditations

Middle States Commission on Higher Education
National Association of Schools of Art and Design

Contact Information

Office of University Admissions
866-279-9663
E-mail: YourFuture@marywood.edu

Program Director: Maria MacDonald
School of Architecture
Marywood University
2300 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
Phone: (570) 348-6211 ext. 2688
1-TO-MARYWOOD (1-866-279-9663)
Program e-mail: mnmacdonald@marywood.edu

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