Interior Architecture BA Honours

Why choose Interior Architecture BA at Middlesex?

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Passionate about interior architecture? We are too. Together we'll develop your creative and practical skills to turn your imaginative ideas into the foundations for a rewarding career. You'll learn how to think and work like a designer alongside fellow creatives.

Jason Scoot, who leads this course, has been a professional award-winning Architect, Interior Designer and design educator for over 20 years. His specialisms include both exclusive residential and commercial housing, architectural rebrand experiences, immersive story-telling and exhibition design. An RCA graduate where he was taught and employed by Sir David Adjaye OM OBE.

Located in north London, you will be a short tube ride away from the capital's museums, restaurants, galleries and shops with opportunities to build your knowledge and inspire your work.

We also offer opportunities for you to participate in Student Exchanges programmes with many partners in Europe and overseas.

What you will gain

Exploring strategies of reuse, spatial atmospheres and materialities, architectural typologies and hybrid uses, you will test ideas and generate proposals through a variety of analogue and digital techniques including sketching, CAD, AI, modelling-making, prototyping and fabrication. On completion, graduates will be part of the next generation of contemporary place-makers, industry influencers and spatial problem solvers.

Set yourself up for an exciting, successful and creative career. Past graduates have gone on to work in both architectural design and interior design practices, specialist studios and prestigious design companies such as Brinkworth, Virgile and Partners, Dalziel and Pow, 20.20, Silver and Co. and Fitch.

In addition to the three-year course, you can develop your practical experience with a one-year placement as part of our four-year sandwich option. You'll develop practical experience which will boost your career prospect and lead to a highly-regarded additional qualification – an Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice: Interior Architecture & Design.

What you will learn

Interior architecture is a well-established, multi-faceted alternative to interior design. Though the two disciplines are intrinsically linked, interior architecture degrees typically focus on the adaptation, remodelling and sustainable reuse of specific existing buildings, where structure and architectural consideration will empower you to reconfigure sites to dramatic effect.

On this course you will:

• Learn to reimagine the urban environment through architectural intervention
• Design new civic spaces that promote social cohesion including libraries, museums, educational settings and healthcare facilities
• Learn to design incredible interiors, that respond to their context and the local community
• Transform a variety of public and private spaces where you will have the opportunity to design future interiors, that respond to the character and history of your host building and create new hybrid alternatives
• Explore strategies to unlock new potential and promote innovative ways inhabitants will reconnect with the ‘interior’.

You will also engage in a variety of professional approaches that embrace research, capture design development and create imaginative proposals. Spatial planning will be linked with both construction and structural awareness, including the use of sustainable materials and new technologies. Professional drawing standards, together with innovative methods of design communication and visualisation will help articulate design intent.

This course prepares you for a successful and exciting career, one that can help create an individual identity as an independent design professional.