Service-Learning projects are key in IAD curriculum. Drawing featured is completed IAD senior Kiana Aros, a 2021 interdisciplinary service-learning project for IMID in Boise, ID INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN designing places. inspiring lives.
Idaho’s only CIDA-accredited Bachelor of Interior Architecture & Design (B.I.A.D.) program prepares you for a vibrant future as a professional interior architect and designer. The program blends intensive studio experiences, rich classroom content and hands-on practice with personal faculty guidance and collaborative learning opportunities on and off campus. You’ll graduate with the relevant and highly sought-after specialized training, creative skills and confidence you need for a successful career designing meaningful interior spaces and places.
As an interior architecture and design student, you are both a storyteller and dream maker: you will explore a wide range of design scenarios, creative problem-solving processes and analytical and artistic techniques that will prepare you for professional practice in a variety of commercial, corporate and residential settings. You’ll master the ability to create resilient, compelling, functional and beautiful structural interior places that positively influence the way people live, work and play.
Dr. Rula Awwad-Raffterty Rebecca Nelson Rebecca Cromwell IDEC, EDRA, Allied ASID, NEWH Academic Advisor Recruitment & Retention Program Head Phone: 208-885-5082 Coordinator Phone: 208-885-6832 [email protected] Phone:208-885-1186 [email protected] www.uidaho.edu/iad [email protected] B.I.A.D INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN with a minor in architecture
fall credits spring credits
1 TOTAL 16 TOTAL 17 *Arch 151 Intro to the Built Environment [H] 33 Arch 154 Intro to Architectural Graphics 3 Art 121 Integrated Design Process 22 IAD 152 Interior Architecture and Design l 3 Art 110 Integrated Art & Design Communication 22 *Humanities/Social Science 3 IAD 151 Intro to Interior Architecture & Design 33 *Eng. 102 College Writing and Rhetoric 33 *Social Science 3 3 *General Education – Math 3 *General Education – English 101 33 *Comm 101 Fund. of Public Speaking 2
APPLICATION REQUIRED
2 IAD 231 Design Communication 22 TOTAL 15 Arch 243 Media in Architecture 3 TOTAL 17 IAD 281 History of the Interior l 33 IAD 254 Architectural Design ll 4 Arch 253 Architectural Design l 4 IAD 282 History of Interior ll 3 Arch 266 Materials and Methods 3 *Social Sciences 3 *Art 100 World Art and Culture [H,I] 33 *General Education – Science + Lab 4
PORTFOLIO AND APPLICATION REQUIRED TOTAL 17 3 TOTAL 15 IAD 344 Digital Design Tools for IAD 22 IAD 332 Furniture Design & Construction 4 IAD 351 Interior Architecture & Design lll 6 IAD 352 Interior Architecture and Design lV 66 IAD 368 Materials & Specifications 33 IAD 443 Universal Design [AD] 3 Arch 463 Environmental Control Systems 4 Arch 464 Environmental Control Systems 44
4 TOTAL 14 TOTAL 14 ***Arch 385 Global History of Architecture l 3 IAD 452 Interior Architecture & Design Vl [Capstone] 6 IAD 410 Capstone Proposal Development 22 ***Arch 386 Global History of Architecture ll 33 IAD 451 Interior Architecture and Design V 66 *Core Science 33 Arch 475 Professional Practice 3 IAD 400 Seminar 2 2
Total major degree credits 122-125
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO B.I.A.D. INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN AND MINOR IN ARCHITECTURE
• Meets U of I General Education Requirements. Students must complete 36 A “C” or above is required for successful completion of all IAD studio courses. General Education credits. (H), (I), (AD) and (Capstone) indicate that the course fulfills general education requirements for the humanities, Students who begin their college studies at the U of I must complete the U of international studies, American diversity and Capstone, respectively. I Core Requirements for the catalog year in which they were admitted.
*** Students must take BOTH Arch 385 and Arch 386 to obtain a minor in Co-ops and internships are strongly advised. Study abroad and other minors Architecture. If a minor in Architecture is not pursued, only one of these courses is and certificates are also encouraged with advisor consultation. required and counts towards major credits. Students have the option of seamless master degree in architecture, or other allied fields following conclusion of undergraduate degree. Seamless B.I.A.D./M.Arch TOTAL 12 G1 TOTAL 15 Arch 353 Architectural Design lll 6 Arch 354 Arch Design lV 6 Arch 361 Structural Systems l 33 Arch 362 Structural Systems ll 3 Arch 483 Urban Theory & Issues^^ 3 *Arch 386 Global History of Architecture ll 3 * Arch 485 Global History of Architecture 3
GRADUATE GATE: APPLICATION REQUIRED TOTAL 12 G2 TOTAL 12 Arch 553 Integrated Architectural Design 6 Arch 388 Introduction to Theory 3 Arch 568 Technical Integration in Design 3 Arch 461 Building Assemblies 3 Graduate Architecture Elective 3 Arch 554 Vertical Studio 6 TOTAL 9
G3 TOTAL 9 Arch 510 Graduate Project Seminar 3 Arch 556 Graduate Project 6 Graduate Architecture Elective 3 Graduate Architecture Elective 3 Graduate Elective 3
Total degree credits 45-70
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO SEAMLESS M.Arch ADVISING SHEET
^^Arch 483 Urban Theory and Issues and Arch 461 Building Assemblies count as The M.Arch degree requires a minimum of 45 credits. 36 of these credits must be at the graduate credit. 500-level; others may be from 400-level courses in Architecture and 300 or 400-level courses in supporting areas. Arch 552 may be substituted for Arch 554 with permission. * Some courses may have been taken during B.I.A.D.