MA Interior Architecture and Design

Heriot-Watt University

Our MA Interior Architecture and Design is designed for those with art, design, and architectural backgrounds. The postgraduate master’s programme provides you with a creative blend of practical skills, research, and technology to develop designs that offer tangible solutions to current socio-economic issues and sustainability. You’ll study Interior Architecture and Design through a range of studio projects, specialist subjects and cross-disciplinary theoretical courses and will give you the chance to develop your own project and concepts that test and challenge the perceived norms. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills to understand and explore interior architecture and design from a creative, theoretical, and practical perspective with emphasis on innovation, technology, and commercial relevance. MA Interior Architecture and Design will allow you to understand the concepts, principles and theories of specialist design issues to help meet your individual professional aspirations. You’ll develop the practical expertise and apply intellectual awareness to address interior architecture and design issues, problems and scenarios in an innovative, sustainable and socially conscious manner. The programme offers specialised courses in interior architecture tectonics, tools and technology; design thinking and innovation; sustainable design and management; interior architecture communities, engagement and practice; and research methodologies. You’ll apply your learned skills, techniques, and knowledge to undertake your final project and fine-tune your expertise within the industry. Upon completion of the programme, you’ll be able to effectively approach and explore interior architecture and design and communicate ideas critically and effectively to a wide range of individuals and organisations, through professional visual, written, and verbal communication.