Course Details

1. Develop the ability to explain and apply theoretical knowledge of Interior Design history into practical solutions
2. Extend oral and written communication skills
3. Identify and integrate historical knowledge with current design practice
4. Highlight an awareness of consumer culture

Introduction of the course: to introduce the development of Interior Design.

Lectures supported by illustrated presentations: This course provides a knowledge tank for a variety of approaches in the critical understanding of Interior Design. The course also increases students’ comprehension of the processes and products of interior design, encouraging them to become more discerning and aware consumers of culture. Attention is focused on the meaning and context of artistic and cultural activities now and in the past, in industrialized and non-industrial societies.

Student assessments (1): student groups (3-4 students) are assessed by a Seminar which they present an oral presentation based on various eras of history from the taught course that the student wishes to research and analyze

Student assessments (2): Students submit written essays accompanied by illustrated means outlining each era of history from taught lectures and a critical analysis of the relationship of historical styles within the context of contemporary design.

• A History of Interior Design, John Pile, 3rd Edition - Laurence King Publishing, London, 2005

• Architecture in the 20th century, p. Gossel and g. Leuthauser, Taschen, Germany, 1991
• The story of architecture, Patrick Nuttgns, Phaidon, London, 1983
• Interior design of the 20th century, Anne Massey, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996
• A History of Architecture: Settings and rituals, Spiro Kostof, Oxford press, 1995
• Baroque: The culture of Excess, Steven Calloway, Phaidon
• Egypt: From Pre History to the Romans, Dietrich Wildung, Tashen, 1997
• Greece, From Mycenae to the Parthenon, Henri Stierlin, Tashen, 2001
• Islam, From Baghdad to Cordoba early architecture from 7th to the 13th century, Henri Stierlin, _Tashen, 2009
• Romanesque and Gothic France: Art and architecture, Viviane Minne Seve, Abrahams, 2000
• World Architecture: The Masterworks, Will Pryce, Thames and Hudson

The taught part of the course is delivered by means of illustrated lectures conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lectures also include video presentations.

Lectures are supplemented with extended project briefings, student research and presentation, group critiques and individual tutorials.