25+ YEARS OF I-A

The UNSW Bachelor of Interior Architecture (Hons) graduation design studio focuses on the agency of the interior within the context of the urban morphologies and civic typologies of the twenty-first century city.

Through the framework of this studio project, our graduating cohort is engaging in the political and social agency of their discipline in the development of the urban interior.

Conscious of their opportunity to develop design as a significant driver of innovation, these works describe a very different future of design practice, one that involves the democratisation of good design, collaboration and social contribution as core to contemporary design practice.

OUR PROGRAM

Community of Practice

Over the past 25+ years, our program has advanced the discourse and practice of interior architecture in the global arena, training world class design practitioners. As the 2020 graduates, we value the history and evolution of our community of practice.

Interior architecture is a design discipline that focuses specifically on interior environments and all aspects of their structural, spatial, social and material assembly.

Interior architecture and interior design share a common ground, but they differ in the scale of the intervention in the interior. Interior architecture works at the scale of architecture, including the manipulation of structural elements such as walls, floors and staircases while interior design generally engages at the scale of individual rooms.

Through a focus on material and spatial assembly, agency and affect, we foster an agile and critical approach to design enquiry, underpinned by an informed appreciation of the environmental, cultural and historic contexts of interior architecture and design. We value an expansive approach in the speculation and projection of the contemporary interior, underpinned by rigour, research and creative risk taking.