Interior Architecture

Overview

Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design curriculum supports students in developing strategies that account for the importance of social and environmental responsibility, while expanding upon the architect’s understanding of reuse as a product of both practice and theory.

Graduates with Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design will be prepared to:

• engage in the practice and implementation of adaptive reuse in the built environment through the demonstration of an appropriate aesthetic, theoretical and technological framework

• expand upon the architect's understanding of reuse as a product of practice and in the context of architectural history and theory

• develop strategies for acknowledging the importance of social and environmental responsibility through design projects

• view and evaluate adaptive reuse through a multifaceted lens

• recognize the origins of adaptive reuse as well as the contemporary context governing current practice

• use qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the economic and environmental merits of adaptive reuse

• become ambassadors of adaptive reuse as a specialty in the professional design setting through the advancement of such practice at conferences and as built work