The Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design is a two year, full-time, English language study course. We offer two specialisations within our Master programme:
- Interior Architecture
- Retail Design
The specialisation Interior Architecture is structured in such a way that the attainment targets (competences at graduation) are related to the starting qualifications for interior architects as formulated in the WAT (Wet op de Architectentitel/Dutch Architects’ Title Act) legislative proposal. The course also complies with additional regulations and entitles you, provided you have at least two years of working experience, to enroll in the architects’ register SBA (Stichting Bureau Architectenregister).
The professional interior architect is protected by the Dutch Architects’ Title Act of 1987. On February 9, 2010 The Dutch House of Representatives has accepted a number of changes to the WAT. The new WAT will come into force on January 1, 2011.
The course has been developed for and is targeted towards students who are expected to acquire a great scope of knowledge, develop skills and really understand the retail or the interior architecture work field. Students should be curious by nature, enjoy challenges, learn where their limits are and how to extend them. The course has been designed for motivated designers and consists of an extremely varied course programme.
Interior architecture, as an artistic design discipline, has great influence on our environment. The current modern society keeps demanding more and more from this environment. Today’s civilian in a melting-pot of different ethnic cultures in which the awareness of his/her environment asks for new rules of conduct and in which high-tech communication technology ads new dimensions to the experience of time and space. Architecture, and mainly interior architecture, has to aim at the needs of a changing society in which existing built asks for different function, meaning and design. The role of design itself is in the change. The increasing complexity and request for sustainable design demands different competences of the interior architect than before.
Retail design is one of the most challenging areas of interior architecture. The retail area not only shows the mentioned changes quicker, but the area also gives the designer the possibility to get to know the different parties involved. Take for example marketing- and purchase managers, salesmen, commercial agents and store staff, but also the different design aspects, from graphic 2D-design to interior 3D-design. The multidisciplinary context of the programme guarantees an inspiring trust and flexible attitude to creatively work with professionals from different disciplines.
Master degree offered
The Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design is fully accredited and reviewed by the NVAO (Nederlands-Vlaams Accreditatie Organisatie), the standard academic accreditation council for the Netherlands and the Flemish part of Belgium, and fully subsidised by the Dutch state. The Master degree we offer is a Master of Design.
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