Interior Architecture BA (Hons)

Northumbria University

Bachelor degree

36 months

Application deadlines: January

Processing time: 30 days

Application fee: £12

Full-time

Intakes: September

International tuition: £15,500

Whatever your aspirations in interior architecture, you will find the latest technologies to support you in our dedicated laboratories and studios. You will have full use of the design studio, specialist model making, rapid prototyping and IT workshops and professional plotting services to help you synthesise and apply your learning through increasingly complex design projects. This supports the accumulation and curation of a personalised portfolio relevant to your future professional career. Through our Electronic Learning Platform (eLP) you will have access to project and assignment information and learning materials for the course and for each module of study. The course emphasises self-directed learning, critical thinking, and independent research to support your academic and personal development, set within a supportive and academically rigorous learning studio culture. An acclaimed academic team will teach you, comprising of architects, designers and subject specialists who have created award-winning projects nationally and internationally, as well as staff who have published research around the world. This unique team will provide you with authentic, exemplary and supportive guidance to help you shape your personal identity, your specialist interior architecture knowledge and for a career path within the subject, the wider architecture and design professions and beyond. You will be assessed through regular feedback within each module, to provide ongoing constructive guidance and confirmation of your learning; all within dedicated design studios. Design tutorials will help you discuss, develop and improve your ideas and assessment for learning will help you progress and achieve.

This program can be done

On campus

Exams:

IELTS

International Foundation Programme OR 1st Year Undergraduate: Certificate of Secondary Education and an acceptable grade from a recognised Foundation programme - Average of 4 in Certificate of Secondary Education and all Bs in Foundation Programme OR First year of Bachelor degree/Bakalvr: minimum GPA 3/Satisfactory

Collaborative and individual projects allow you to function as both an independent thinker and a team member, skills which have seen our graduates gain worldwide employment within architectural and design practices, as well as in other relevant roles and professions. In addition, the course is recognised by an expansive network of employers and contacts at a local, national and international level, who provide useful guidance, including visiting lectures and contribution to studio-based teaching to ensure the contemporary relevance of your learning, whilst encouraging employment opportunities. You will graduate equipped with a project portfolio of relevant professional and academic outputs, and a variety of skills in design, visualisation, communications, practice management and research. Throughout the course transferable skills will develop to an extremely high level, along with your problem-solving skills, preparing you for a wide range of design careers. Our newly validated professionally accredited 60 credit PG Cert Interior Architecture top-up course (accredited by ARB; Architects Registration Board) is the only course of its type in the country and allows our BA Interior Architecture graduates to achieve Part I status for Architecture. This unique and exciting addition allows you to progress within your career as an accredited subject specialist and onto our MArch Architecture Part II course. This pathway will further enrich your professional profile, allowing you to become qualified, with specialist skills and knowledge in building adaptation and creative reuse, which are of distinctive value within the profession.