Interior Design (IDES)
Prerequisites: Acceptance into the IDES, ARCH or LARC professional program, or into the MS in Architecture programs
Description: Focuses on the way people understand the built environment. Design for wayfinding, information graphics, architectural graphics such as signage, exhibit design, and themed environments.
Prerequisites: Admission to the professional program in interior design or architecture
Description: History and development of interiors and furnishings from prehistoric times to the present day, emphasizing the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Interiors and furnishings focused on the West yet considered within a global context.
Description: Introduction to the relationship between human behavior and the environment. Key areas of inquiry address a continuum of scale: person, home, building, community and city.
Description: Survey and integration of theory, methods, research and findings from the social, behavioral, and managerial sciences as they relate to the design of work environments. Factors effecting change in the contemporary workplace.
Online seminar.
Description: Engages in multi-faceted discourse on the built environment, development, and design of suburbia. Emphasis is placed on the role of design and its impact on the physical, social, political and economic structures of the suburbs and the single-family home. Examines multiple scales from various points of view.
Description: The theories and practices of material culture. History and interior design--and the broad category of humanity itself--through the lens of material objects.
Description: Research methods employed by the diverse specializations within the disciplines of architecture and interior design. Methods which contribute to a theoretical and informational body of knowledge as well as those contributing directly to design application.
Prerequisites: Admission to the BSD Program.
Description: Contemporary and controversial issues. Nuances of the field and practice of interior design and its relationship to the allied design disciplines.
Description: An introduction to evidence based design as it applies to a variety of different building types. Overall exploration of research topics and issues related to key areas of inquiry include: workplace, healthcare, education, retail + brand, culture and sustainability. The design application of research findings related to each respective area is explored.
Prerequisites: Admission to a professional program in the College of Architecture.
Description: Comprehensive overview of the complementary and contributory relationship between research and design, with a particular emphasis on design research as a projective activity.
Description: Group investigation of a topic in interior design originated by instructor.
Description: Individual investigation of a topic in interior design.