Birmingham City University

M.A - Interior Architecture and Design

Through encouraging and promoting experiential learning, the MA Interior Architecture and Design course embrace the truth that designing is a creative adventure.

This twelve-month program will enable you to form an understanding and appreciation of theoretical, practical and professional issues that are informing the evolution of contemporary interior architecture and design professional practice.  

What's covered in the course?

On the MA Interior Architecture and Design program, you will explore the distinctive qualities associated with the interiors of inhabited architecture. 

By looking at the cultural, practical and atmospheric aspects of interiors created by architects, artists, and designers, as an innovator, you will be able to strategically develop creative interfaces and determine how users will perceive and behave in the spaces that you are conceiving. 

Making speculative work is an important aspect of the program. As individuals, you will establish your professional identity as autonomous creative practitioners by blending philosophy, artistry, and practicality in order to compose an interior design scenario that is future-focused and personally and culturally meaningful. By exploring innovative practices embedded within your own design process, this reflective practice will act as a stimulus for you to challenge existing assumptions about interior design and push the international platform for the profession forwards into new and versatile directions.

A key aspect of the course is that it will encourage a spirit of 'internationalization', which will contribute to the establishment of a culturally rich, vibrant and diverse learning studio environment. Fostering the ambition of ‘life long learning’, you will create a dynamic continual development plan. This will allow you to draw on the expertise and global networks associated with the institution, reflecting the full spectrum of opportunities that can help you to enrich and nurture your career. Previous postgraduate students on the program have been employed at leading international architectural practices as architects, interior designers, or as design lecturers in further and higher education institutions, with the pathway to postgraduate Doctoral Ph.D. study also opened up as a result.