Important note: The Master's programme in Interior Architecture is cancelled for Autumn 2010 and is therefore not possible to apply for this year.
Chalmers University of Technology launches a new Master’s programme
in Interior Architecture that will provide advanced knowledge in the
design of architectural space. Focus is set on enriched spatial
experience and the human interaction with space as well as health and
environmental issues and knowledge in physical and technical conditions
– acoustics, light, colour, materials, indoor climate and construction.
The programme will start in the autumn semester 2009. The aim is to
develop abilities to form high quality spaces in an interior art that
can organize functions, acoustic atmospheres, lighting and colour,
indoor climate and supporting structures to an artistic entirety.
With the course Research by Design as a starting point, the
programme uses a creative, investigative approach where design projects
are the main educational form. Projects will focus on themes like Space
and sound, Space and climate, Lighting and colour, Space, material and
construction, and Extreme environments. Public and collective spaces
stand at the centre of the studies. The second year course on Design
for Sustainable Development will develop deeper knowledge on energy
efficiency, materials and emissions, work climate, ergonomics and
‘design for all’.
The programme is hosted by the Department of Architecture, in
collaboration with Civil and Environmental Engineering, the IT
University and the Lighting Design Center in Alingsås. Through this
co-operation, the education generates a diversity that responds to
current and future labour market demands: the need for a professional
competence that can move between architectural and interior design;
deal with the shaping of spatial sequences, indoor and outdoor spaces,
general spaces and spaces for specific use, and take part in teams of
advanced, integrated design tasks.
Thirty students will be admitted each year. Prerequisites are a
Bachelor degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Interior
Design. Admission will be made by ranking portofolios. Depending on
Bachelor profile, the education will give the degree Master of
Architecture (in Swedish, ‘Arkitektexamen’), authorised by the Swedish
Association of Architects, or Master of Science (in Swedish,
‘Teknologie masterexamen’), with the specification ‘Interior
Architecture’
