
Interior Architecture and Design BA (Hons)
Coventry, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
From conceptualisation through 2D visualisation and 3D modelling to animation, our course is designed to teach you the skills you need to pursue a successful career in industry.
Course overview
The course encourages conceptual thinking but always marries designs to reality. This would help students find employment across the many sectors of interior architecture, whether in retail, hospitality and leisure, workplace design, civic and culture or exhibition design.
- Creativity: You will be challenged to develop innovative and experimental solutions, transforming spaces through material understanding and user insights.
- Making: An emphasis on making, both physical and virtual, underpins the course and ensures that graduates are both digitally fluent and materially sensitive.
- Employability: You will be supported to develop the skills, knowledge and resilience required to enter industry. You will build a sophisticated design portfolio over the course of your studies, with the aim of giving you access to opportunities for employment or further study.
Why you should study this course
- Studio Culture: Our studio-based course will allow you to explore, create, collaborate and develop the skills required to design innovative spaces, supported by peers and guided by experienced practitioners. (staff subject to change).
- Analogue and Digital: We deliberately strike a balance between traditional hand-processes and emerging technologies. You will participate in workshops for drawing, and model making, along with CAD, 3D computer modelling and animation. Traditional workshops sit alongside facilities for laser cutting, CNC milling and 3D printing.
- International Network: Our students may go on to find employment in a variety of fields and professions including interior architecture, lighting design, exhibition design, concept design, theatre and stage design and project management. Gain an international perspective with our international collaborative institutions, who provide opportunities for shared learning and the potential for travel and study abroad2. Our visiting speaker programme makes use of our extensive alumni and industry network.
- Sustainability: In a finite world you will be in a great position to help lead the world with sustainable solutions to architectural problems. Adaptive reuse of buildings as opposed to demolition and rebuild, will become a must and interior architects and designers will be highly sought after.
- Professional Accreditation and Awards: The course has been accredited by The Society of British & International Interior Designers (SBID) as a Centre of Excellence. Our students have won awards at national exhibitions and events including Free Range and New Designers.
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Curriculum
Year One
In the first year, the curriculum allows you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline where you will develop knowledge and skills to do with creating spaces, digital skills and tools, and materials, among others.
Modules
- Drawing and Making Spaces
- Creative Exploration
- The Language of Space
- Digital Skills 1
- Materials and Structures
- Designing Spaces
Year Two
In your second year, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:
- technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge
- study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner
- professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career
- global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen.
Modules
- Branded Spaces
- Digital Skills 2
- Professional Development
- Research and Analysis
- Creative Consolidation
- Collaborative Design
Placement Year
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
Modules
- UK Work Placement
- International Study/Work Placement
Final Year
The final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from the first and second years. You could also work on a large final project in an area of your interest, with the support of a mentor.
Modules
- Final Major Project: Definition and Direction
- Final Major Project: Investigation
- Final Major Project: Conceptual Synthesis
- Final Major Project: Development
- Final Major Project: Resolution
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Career Opportunities
On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:
- apply creative and logical thinking processes to the business of solving spatial and interior design problems and develop ideas through to material outcomes and construction
- analyse the interrelationships within and between aspects of interior design; to describe, interpret and evaluate designed spaces from a range of critical perspectives, considering the context of their construction, clients, users, brand issues, markets and history of design processes
- engage in integrated design practice based on the acquisition, understanding and application of the skills and working methods typical of interior architects and designers
- realise a range of practical, creative and theoretical projects, analyse design problems and provide appropriate design solutions; initiate projects, meet deadlines, liaise with commercial collaborators, make presentations, research and synthesise information, produce reports and evaluate the design and research work of self and others
- demonstrate skills associated with professional practice; time management, project management, professional level communication, self-promotion, interview technique, information gathering and use of information and communication technology as appropriate
- employ materials, media, techniques, methods, technologies and tools associated with interior architecture and design through drawing, modelling, computer visualisation and animation methods using skill and imagination
- utilise the various means by which one can represent interior design and judge their fitness for purpose; select and use various 2D, 3D, and digital techniques appropriately to communicate design intent and detail.
Where our graduates work
Graduates have gone on to become interior designers for companies including:
- Creation Shopfitters
- Furnish Studio
- Gensler
- GES
- GMP Design
- HÅLLNING
- Hirsch Bedner Associates
- Identity
- Imagination
- Rhino Interiors Group
Further study
Upon successful completion of this degree you may choose to continue your studies at Coventry University with the Interior Design MA or Design Management MA. You may be entitled to an alumni discount on your fees if you decide to extend your time with us by progressing from undergraduate to postgraduate study.