The Design and Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree is a 3-year educational journey to learn how to turn the way people experience spaces into a functional and harmonious project, both for homes and workspaces.
This course is acknowledged by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and has full academic value.
The course aims to build the skills to read users’ needs and behaviours and blend them with social and ergonomic factors, in order to design spaces that can be effectively lived and used. You will learn how to detect and improve the relationship between interior design and the nature of the services supplied in specific spaces.
Your academic journey
Things you will learn
Our study plans are designed to create a thorough training experience where every subject completes the other.
First year
Start learning the basics of history of modern art, interior architecture, digital and architectural design, types of materials, marketing fundamentals.
ECT Total | 60 |
Subjects | ECT |
History of Modern Art | 6 |
Interior Architecture I | 10 |
Fundamentals of Computer Design | 4 |
Design I | 12 |
Types of Materials I | 6 |
Marketing Fundamentals | 6 |
Lighting Engineering | 8 |
Fundamentals of Computer Science | 4 |
English | 4 |
Second year
You will study in depth the main subjects, then learn how to manage design and 3D modelling from a technical point of view, and how to manage client relationships.
ECT Total | 60 |
Subjects | ECT |
History of Contemporary Art | 4 |
Interior Architecture II | 6 |
Design II | 10 |
Digital Modeling Techniques 3D | 6 |
Design Culture | 6 |
Textile Culture | 4 |
Design Methodologies | 8 |
Types of Materials II | 4 |
Light Design | 6 |
Electives | 6 |
Third year
Understand connections between people and places, learn to design for sustainability and understand the basics of interior design regulations.
ECT Total | 60 |
Subjects | ECT |
Art Anthropology | 6 |
Interior Architecture III | 6 |
Design III | 10 |
Urban Design | 6 |
Ecodesign | 6 |
Virtual Architecture | 6 |
Design Management | 4 |
Electives | 4 |
Additional language skills, interpersonal, computer training courses, internships | 4 |
Final exam | 8 |
Experience, work and learn
Our teaching method stimulates engagement and active learning. Students can experience and learn in an ever moving open lab, with actual projects and role-playing activities. 30% Lectures, classroom activities, reading and studying, 70% Practice, labs, creation and presentation of personal projects, workshops.
30% Lectures, classroom activities, reading and studying
70% Hands-on activities, workshops, production and presentation of personal projects, workshops
Final exam and personal project
For your final exam you will prepare an artistic and planning thesis, including a design and a short essay agreed with your lecturer.
Your future after graduation
After the academic course you will be able to prepare and take care of an interior design during all its stages, from planning to implementation.
The Design and Interior Architecture Bachelor’s Degree will allow you to work as a self-employed professional or in visual merchandising and outfitting companies and design studios specialising in transformation of industrial buildings.
Benefits for students
We believe creativity is for all. We offer a variety of benefit opportunities:
- Payment by instalments
- Grants (provided by ADISU institution)
- Competitions for technical institutes and fashion enthusiasts
- Digital lecture notes included