56 courses with the subject INTR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
An introductory course that explores the use of proprietary computer applications for communications and the preparation of visual materials in Interior Design. The course introduces and reinforces classic design principles for expert visual communication of ideas through digital techniques from an Interior Design perspective.
Covers development of modern architecture and interiors in the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a vocabulary for discussing architecture; an understanding of how various factors affect design; and a familiarity with names, movements, and buildings that are part of historical development.
This course is a comprehensive introduction to textiles and their use in the interior design profession.
This course explores design communication skills through hand drawing and model building exercises. Orthographic drawing skills are developed through investigation of plan, section, elevation and three dimensional drawings.
This course introduces design students to the relationship between people and the build environment. Understanding how people perceive, interact with, and are affected by their surroundings through readings and design exercieses make evident the significance of the psychological, pyshicological, social and cultural concepts of environmental behavior as an integral part of the designed environment.
An intensive introduction to two and three dimensional drawing and visualization through the computer. This course explores orthographic and perspective drawing conventions and techniques from a digital perspective.
An intensive introduction to advanced modeling and rendering software. Students will explore lighting, materiality, advanced form and spatial experience through realistic three-dimensional digital models.
Introduces basic construction materials and how they may be used successfully by the interior designer. Includes sample materials, visual aids, and guest speakers.
Visual Culture: Interiors addresses the interior environment by studying the role history, economics, culture, materials and technological developments, impact decisions made by designers on interior spaces. While comparing historical context with specific knowledge, this course will enable the student to be a more articulate designer by a comprehensive examination of the interiors.
An overview of furniture in relationship to interiors, and its influences reaching from the roots of antiquity to the impact of technology in today's products. It is the study of artifacts from various time periods and cultures in relation to social and political developments, life and work styles, visual arts, and economic influences.
Course examines the meaning and implications of sustainable design to develop an informed interpretation and working assessment of this movement. Concepts and methodologies are explored through assigned readings, class discussion, field trips and team research.
Foundation spatial course: Involves conscious recognition of the manipulation of space or spaces within a given volume and with a small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.
Primary spatial course. Involves conscious recognition of the manipulation of space or spaces within a given volume and small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.
Provides experience with extensive real space. Emphasizes recognizing its aesthetic quality and maximizing its potential to meet the requirements of the inhabitants, by stylistic quality and elaboration in the selection and application of furniture finishes and accessories. Includes professionally juried presentations.
Covers research, diagramming, site considerations, and program requirements for a specific user group; designing for complex spatial requirements with integration of interior components and furniture. Includes professionally juried presentations.
An advanced course in visualization for Interior Design. Hybrid representation strategies and specialized topics in digital and hand rendering will be covered.
This course covers the design of commercial hospitality interiors. The studio project addresses program research and diagramming, site specificity, and designing for complex requirements with an awareness of vertical circulation, light, view, and enclosure. This course requires students to develop the ceiling plane and to create a visual identity for the design of restaurant interiors. This studio includes professionally juried presentations.
Covers basic considerations of interior construction and detailing and their application.
This course analyzes human needs and the perceptual responses of both general and special populations. It introduces the lighting design theory and principles and explores methods of creating mood and atmosphere with light. It develops vocabulary, documentation methods and understanding of energy conservation, lighting standards, and safety.
This cumulative course is the advanced students' opportunity to participate in a collaborative, interdisciplinary team in which the students will be applying sustainable technical and conceptual education in the context of 3rd party competitions, internally defined design challenges or applied research.
Covers design of institutional-commercial interiors, including space planning, selection of materials and furnishings toward a synthesized environment, and development of specifications. Includes professionally juried presentations.
This studio addresses program and design requirements for a specific demographic community. It will prepare students to tackle the complex design problems that face the growing healthcare industry. The course focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems in the interior environment for the practice areas of health, healing, and well-being. Precedent studies, programming briefs, literature reviews, and collaborative teamwork are used to create evidence-based design solutions that incorporate creativity, human factors data, user-centered design approach, life-safety codes, and building codes. This studio includes professionally juried presentations.
Covers design of environmental elements, simultaneous concerns with craftsmanship and the application of materials to ideas, and development of prototypes. A lab fee is required for this course.
Provides an understanding of the basic procedures and techniques for the development of construction drawings and furniture documentation. Requires students to use case studies to produce a set of drawings representative of current interior design industry standards.
Surveys contemporary business methods, practices, and procedures in the operation of a design firm, including legal and ethical implications. Examines these practices through case studies and lectures by design professionals.
Introduces building systems, mechanical, electrical, ceiling and furniture systems, and their effect on the interior environment. Includes visual aids and guest speakers.
Part one of the 3-term senior project where students develop a capstone independent design project from concept, research and programming to complete design development.
Part two of the 3-term senior project where students develop a capstone independent design project from concept, research and programming to complete design development.
Part three of the 3-term senior project where students develop a capstone independent design project from concept, research and programming to complete design development.
Visual Culture: Interiors addresses the interior environment by studying the impact history, economics, culture, materials and technological developments have on the design of interior spaces. While comparing historical context with specific knowledge, this course will enable the student to be a more articulate designer by a comprehensive examination of the interiors.
An introductory course that explores the use of proprietary computer applications for communications and the preparation of visual materials in Interior Design. The course introduces and reinforces classic design principles for expert visual communication of ideas through digital techniques from an Interior Design perspective.
Covers development of modern architecture and interiors in the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a vocabulary for discussing architecture; an understanding of how various factors affect design; and a familiarity with names, movements, and buildings that are part of historical development.
Course examines the meaning and implications of sustainable design to develop an informed interpretation and working assessment of this movement. Concepts and methodologies are explored through assigned readings, class discussion, field trips and team research.
Primary spatial course. Involves conscious recognition of the manipulability of space or spaces within a given volume and small-scale environmental orientation. Includes professionally juried presentations.
Covers diagramming program requirements, designing for complex spatial requirements with an awareness of building systems (e.g., partitions, heating/ventilating/cooling, lighting), and furniture. Includes professionally juried presentations.
Focuses on a given residential environment with specific architectural identity meeting the residential space requirements of particular clients and recognition of and respect for the quality of interior architecture, volume and its ornament. Develops original approaches to furniture planning, lighting, interior elaboration, furniture, color and finish selection. Professionally juried.
Focused study on the impact of interior architectural and decorative detailing on the interior environment through the understanding of precedent studies and ornamentation.
This course provides for investigative study of materials that shape the interior environment. Exploration of materials through application, research, codes and hands-on presentation are addressed.
An advanced course in visualization focusing on hybrid representation strategies. Specialized topics in digital and hand rendering and exploration of the visual language of presentation and rendering techniques for design development and visualization of interior spaces.
Investigates the manipulation of spatial volume within the context of small-scale environments. Projects build in complexity in terms of use, tectonics and structure emphasizing concept development, iterative design process and various ways of making. Professionally juried.
Focused study in digital communication and making and its role in the design of the interior environment.
Focused study in environmental systems and understanding of the impact and integration between systems and the built environment.
A hands-on investigation of furniture design. Covers design of interior and exterior environmental elements, through explorations in craftsmanship; the application of materials to ideas; and development of prototypes. A lab fee is required for this course.
Focuses on the design of an interior with emphasis on programmatic requirements and environmental behavior leading to a synthesized and identifiable environment. Emphasizes concept, pre-design research, programming, space planning and presentation. Professionally juried.
Investigation in interior detailing and the impact it has on the identity of the interior environment. Focused study and understanding of the design attributes of materials, construction systems and use of detail as a design process and generator.
Intensive focus on advanced modeling and rendering software. Lighting, materiality, form and spatial experience are explored through realistic three-dimensional digital models.
Focused on design of a mid to large scale commercial interior with emphasis on programmatic requirements, parti, adjacency diagrams and office systems. Applies a design concept based on client identity through interior planning and appropriate selection of furniture, materials and finishes consistent with contract interiors. Requires building code analysis, and demonstrated understanding of building codes. Professionally juried.
Focused study and application of building codes and construction documentation of a mid-large scale commercial interior environment.
Develops and deals with many dimensions of light that must be understood if natural and artificial lighting are to be incorporated in the interior design of a building. Provides a series of investigations that allow the student to predict visual effects, meet minimum sight requirements, and ensure visual comfort. Professionally juried.
Studio context will provide for investigative study on subjects of specific environmental concern reflective of current trends, through the study of a large scale interior environment. Professionally juried.
Focused study and analysis of professional practice covering contemporary business methods, practices, and procedures in the operation of a design firm, including legal and ethical implications.
Exploration into design fabrication and making methodologies. A variety of procedures, techniques and tools are utilized to design and fabricate at full scale within the built environment.
Focuses on the process of defining an appropriate thesis topic, writing a succinct proposal, research methodologies and the development of a research plan.
Provides faculty guidance to enable students to identify and investigate an aspect of interior design. May include establishment of philosophical base, data collection, study of comparable or similar programs and spaces, writing of a design program, building selection and measurement, and preliminary design development. Includes professionally juried presentation.
Allows development and refinement of design responses to the program of INTR 897 through in-depth analysis of the design problem. Involves evaluation of work on the basis of the understanding of the design process, the execution of the concept and the extent of development, and the emergence of a design character appropriate both to the student as a designer and to the resolution of the specific problem. Includes professionally juried final presentation.
Required of candidates for the M.S. degree.
Source: Drexel University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
