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Department Head

Eduardo Benamor Duarte

Graduate Program Director

TBa

Programs

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the BFA program are prepared to:

  • evaluate their own individual talents, interests and aptitudes to determine a suitable career path.

  • navigate a collaborative work environment in order to investigate aspects of interior interventions through conceptual thinking and critical making.

  • develop design strategies that recognize the importance of social and environmental responsibility.

  • understand design principles and the tools for implementing them to develop meaningful and coherent design propositions.

  • recognize the importance of context in the transformation of space and acknowledge its implications in the formulation of design concepts.

  • articulate design concepts and implement interventions based on the transformation of existing structures.

  • communicate design ideas through drawings, projections and both physical and digital models.

  • engage with interior interventions in the field and apply this knowledge in design projects of varying scales.

Graduates of the MA program are 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.

Graduates of the MDes programs are prepared to:

  • adopt a clear aesthetic, theoretical and technological framework for interior studies in order to engage in this subject in the design field.

  • investigate different aspects of design interventions in the built environment.

  • articulate the distinctive nature of interior studies as an effective member of a design team able to interact and collaborate with fellow professionals in related fields.

  • develop design strategies that recognize the importance of social and environmental responsibility.

  • assess the spatial transformation capabilities of an existing structure.

  • formulate an original design concept based on research and evaluate, develop, present and advocate coherent design propositions.

  • understand and incorporate related consultant feedback as part of the collaborative process in a professional setting.