Interior Architecture

Objectives & Strategies

IARc Objectives

• Frame interior architecture within the contexts of liberal arts education, a rich cultural heritage, and within environmental concerns;
• Actively experiment and fully explore design-related issues in progressive studio environments through analyses, conceptual frameworks, critical discourses, and design processes;
• Undertake joyful exploration in all aspects of design;
• Form support courses, lectures, seminars, and special events concisely relevant to design;
• Initiate design-related scholarship and research of discovery and application;
• Render service in and beyond the academic community.

IARc Strategies

• Emphasize history, precedent, and design fundamentals as tenets of design;
• Focus on technology and stewardship as a means for design and production;
• Develop excellent communication skills (i.e., drawing, model building, writing, and public speaking);
• Build studio-centered communities within the program;
• Make local/international connections to industry, educators, practitioners in research, work, and travel.