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Programme profile

Thi progrmme covers the full breadth of the spatial domain by focusing on spatial conditions that determine how we experience our daily living environment.

The Interior Architecture department is used as a research laboratory and an experimental space for interaction in the social field, in materials, in techniques and various forms of knowledge. The programme emphasises how "the essence of design and design processes lies in the everyday, and is nourished by routines, exercises and tests, where design is not seen as a control mechanism, but as a companion in developing environments that meet our desires and needs; for ourselves and society as a whole".

Programme content

The programme is based on the principles of experimentation and research. Each academic year, the research focuses on specific areas or current topics, starting from a solid historical and cultural basis.

Importantly, the programme is taught through five learning tracks, which constitute the domains that are addressed in each of the years of study. These five domains are:

Studio
Theoretical and practical learning skills are integrated in the design studios in which you have your own workstation. Because the architecture and design courses are embedded within an art academy context, the emphasis of the courses lies on the possible cultural and social role of design and architecture.

Media & Materials
By using your ‘thinking’ hands, you experiment while working with materials and giving form; by making content. This way, you make surprising and unforeseen discoveries within your design process

Professional Practice
By working on real assignments within the framework of the school, you develp your professional practice skills. .

Independent Practice
Within this domain, you sharpen your critical and independent attitude and discover your own unique way of positionung yourself within the art, architecture, and design context. The first year starts with a knowledge project, then a studio project, in the third year a knowledge and a studio project, and in the final exam year the final exam project.

Knowledge
You analyse existing architecture and design projects to discover the decision-making process and how you could use this knowledge in planning new ones.

Progression

The Academy offers the following English-taught programme:

- MA Interior Architecture

Entry Requirements