Program Overview

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Interior Architecture BA Honours

Overview

Our Interior Architecture BA offers a distinctive approach to design, focusing on adapting existing buildings into innovative, functional, and inspiring interior environments.

Course Summary

Unlike traditional architecture, this discipline focuses on designing from the inside out, creating spaces that inspire and challenge how we live and move through the world.

With regeneration at its core, this course fosters a forward-thinking approach. You’ll explore a range of design scales, from the body to the room and the building, addressing climate change, social justice, and sustainability.

You’ll engage in hands-on studio work and workshops that blend physical craftsmanship with digital skills, fostering creativity and critical inquiry. Through real-world scenarios, community outreach, and the exploration of trends and material potential, you’ll design meaningful, context-sensitive solutions.

The course embraces an interdisciplinary approach, spanning interior, exhibition, set, lighting design, conservation, and retail. You’ll graduate with a specialized professional portfolio that seamlessly integrates technical expertise, cultural insights, and commercial acumen. Equipped to meet the demands of modern practice, you'll be ready for careers in interior and architecture-related fields, shaping spaces, communities, and the future.

Top Reasons to Study with Us

• State-of-the-art facilities: You’ll have access to studio spaces at our Marylebone Campus, open 7 days a week, plus our fully staffed workshops equipped with CNC, laser-cutting, and rapid prototyping equipment.
• Live projects and extracurriculars: You’ll have the opportunity to work on real client projects, competitions, and exhibitions. Past collaborators include the V&A Museum, Freud Museum, Battersea Arts Centre.
• Hands-on workshops: Engage in specialized workshops. Previous workshops have included steam-bending with Samuli Naamanka Design Finland, papercrete with Aberrant Architecture. Collaborative projects with local schoolchildren and Disabled Artists Making Dis/Ordinary Space and medical students from Imperial College to redesign healthcare spaces.
• Expert-led learning: Gain in-demand skills through workshops led by industry professionals such as lighting designers, production designers, motion graphic artists, artists, and filmmakers.
• Global opportunities: Enrich your learning experience with international field trips and exchange programs. Previous destinations included Australia, China, and Oslo, as well as exclusive visits to the VOLA factory in Denmark and collaborative design workshops with students from the Pratt Institute in New York.
• Top rankings: Westminster ranks 4th for 'Student Satisfaction' in Architecture in the Complete University Guide 2025.

Course Climate Action Statement

Interior Architecture BA builds on a fascination for reuse and alteration of existing buildings. By reimagining interior environments from the scale of the room to that of the building and city, the course embeds issues of sustainability, climate impact, and action, the critical ability to respond appropriately to a given context, and prepares graduates for a career in interior-related fields.

Course Structure

You'll learn through studio discussions, seminars, individual and group tutorials, and workshops, all focused on supporting you with the development of your project work. Your learning will be enriched with studio visits to sites, exhibitions, galleries, projects, and field trips.

You will be assessed through your design portfolio, design project work, and an academic portfolio, along with visual and oral presentations in the form of individual or group seminars, tutorials, and presentations of design project work.

You'll learn and progress by attending studio sessions and through developing design project work that involves learning to conceptualize, make architectural proposals, and evaluate them.

Subjects of Study

• Year 1:
  • A History of Architecture
  • Cultural Context 1: History of Architecture
  • Materials and Technologies for Interior Architecture
  • Studies in Design 1: Design Fundamentals
  • Studies in Design 2: Design Strategies
• Year 2:
  • Architectural History and Urbanism
  • Cultural Context 2: Dissertation
  • Exhibition Design
  • Studies in Design 3: Culture and Alteration
  • Studies in Design 4: Material and Detail
  • Time-Based Media
• Placement Year:
  • This course gives you the opportunity to take a year in industry (work placement) after completing the second year of your study. This will help you gain work experience and increase your chances of employability after you graduate.
• Year 3:
  • Cultural Context 3: Dissertation
  • Interior Practices
  • Studies in Design 5: Spatial Narratives
  • Studies in Design 6: Thesis Project

Course Membership

The course is a member of Interior Educators, and graduating students are invited to participate in their annual exhibition FreeRange, held at The Old Truman Brewery in East London. This is the largest employer-focused student interior show in the country.

Programme Specification

For more details on course structure, modules, teaching, and assessment, download the programme specification (PDF).

Why Study This Course?

• Award-winning students: Our student success is recognized in awards. Recent awards include: Foster + Partners Prize for Technical Innovation (2019), Katherine Shonfield Prize for History and Theory (2019/16), and the Retail Design Student Award (2019/18).
• International opportunities: You'll have many travel opportunities throughout the course. Previous opportunities have included a five-day field trip to a European destination, a semester-long exchange to Australia, China, and Oslo, and one-off travel opportunities to take part in design workshops overseas.
• Intellectually stimulating: In the 2020 National student survey, 94% of our students said they found the course intellectually stimulating.

Entry Requirements

• UK:
  • A Levels – BBB (120 UCAS Tariff points)
  • T levels – 120 UCAS Tariff points
  • International Baccalaureate – 120 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme will be considered on a case-by-case basis
  • BTEC Extended Diploma – DDM in Art and Design
  • BTEC Diploma – Not accepted on its own
  • Access – 120 UCAS Tariff points from the Access course
• International:
  • International Baccalaureate – 120 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme will be considered on a case-by-case basis
  • Other international qualifications – We accept a wide range of international high school level qualifications.
  • International Foundation courses – We work in partnership with Kaplan International College London who provide the International Foundation Certificate at their College based in Liverpool Street.

English Language Requirements

• If your first language is not English, you should have an IELTS score of 6.0 overall, with a score of 5.5 in each component.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £9,535 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £17,600 (Price per academic year)

Scholarships

The University is dedicated to supporting ambitious and outstanding students, and we offer a variety of scholarships to eligible undergraduate students, which cover all or part of your tuition fees.

Additional Costs

See what you may need to pay for separately and what your tuition fees cover.

Teaching and Assessment

Below you will find how learning time and assessment types are distributed on this course.

• How you'll be taught: Teaching methods across all our undergraduate courses focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• How you'll be assessed: Our undergraduate courses include a wide variety of assessments.

Supporting You

Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us.

• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits, and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events, and more

Course Location

In the heart of London, our Marylebone Campus is home to the Westminster Business School and our Architecture, Planning, and Tourism courses. Specialist workshops, dedicated digital and architecture studios, and our extensive Marylebone Library offer students everything they need for academic success.

Marylebone Campus is opposite Baker Street tube station and within easy walking distance of Regent's Park and Marylebone High Street.

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