| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
| 2026-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Interior Architecture
BA (Hons)
Overview
Our BA (Hons) Interior Architecture course is part of the School of Architecture, blending creative design with critical thinking. While some modules are shared with Architecture, Interior Architecture focuses on designing from the user's perspective—considering how people experience and move through space. You’ll explore real-world issues through live projects with local clients and develop unique ‘furnitecture’—designs that sit between furniture and architecture. Rooted in both the rich traditions of architectural theory and the dynamic, emerging field of interior design, the course encourages bold ideas and hands-on experimentation. With over 20 years of experience and as a founding member of Interior Educators, we’re proud to offer a supportive and forward-thinking environment. Based in Oxford, you'll have access to world-class buildings for inspiration and study.
Why Oxford Brookes University
- Develop your creative craft
- Holistic design approach
- A route to employment
- Live projects
- Top 20 in the UK
- Learn a language
- Study abroad
Course Details
Course Structure
This course teaches you how to respond to many human and cultural needs. Design through practice is a key part of interior architecture.
- Year 1: You’ll learn about the essentials of designing in 3D, and in context and to scale. You’ll also discover how to come up with a design brief and practise representational techniques such as architectural orthographic drawing and model making.
- Year 2: Projects often involve designing a new pavilion, private interior spaces and how to reuse existing building fabric.
- Year 3: You’ll work on a comprehensive project focused on sharpening your professional skills. You’ll also write a dissertation on a specialist subject of your choice.
Learning and Teaching
The three-year full-time course is centred on the design studio.
- You will learn about:
- the design process
- the investigation of ideas and concepts
- the representation of design
- the relationship between the design studio and its interface with the world of professional practice.
- We place importance on learning from each other. You’ll generate and develop ideas in our open studio culture.
- Design studio culture involves:
- group and individual tutorials
- presentations
- discussions of ideas
- forms of representation.
- We will equip you with the latest architecture insights and knowledge. You will have the opportunity to take part in 'live' projects within the community.
- Related subject teaching includes:
- technology practice
- the histories and theories of architecture
- interior architecture
- design and digital culture.
- Teaching methods include:
- lectures and seminars
- group and individual presentations
- a written dissertation in the final year.
Assessment
Assessment is 100% coursework.
- Assessment methods include:
- group and individual presentations
- portfolios
- journals
- reports
- a written dissertation in the final year.
Field Trips
Field trips abroad are offered each year in addition to site and factory visits. Recent field trips have visited places such as Italy, Hong Kong and France. Field trips are a very popular option because they offer the opportunity to experience architecture at first hand with your tutors.
- Field trips, site visits and factory visits are optional and an additional cost to the course fees.
Study Modules
Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 15 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.
Year 1
- Compulsory modules:
- Architectural Representation (30 credits)
- Introduction to Architectural Technology (30 credits)
- Introduction to Architectural Design 1 (15 credits)
- Architecture and Society
- Introduction to Architectural Design 2 (15 credits)
- Introduction to Architectural History and Theory (15 credits)
Year 2
- Compulsory modules:
- Materials Exploration (30 credits)
- Digital Culture (30 credits)
- Interior Architecture 1 (15 credits)
- Cities, Culture and Society
- Interior Architecture 2 (15 credits)
- Issues in Architectural History and Theory (15 credits)
- Optional modules:
- Independent Study in Architecture (15 credits)
- Exchange Programme (15 credits)
Year 3
- Compulsory modules:
- Dissertation (30 credits)
- Technical Design (30 credits)
- Management, Practice and Law (30 credits)
- Design Practice (30 credits)
- Interior Architecture 3 (15 credits)
Careers
This degree gives you the skills and knowledge you’ll need for employment in an architectural practice, design office or a fabrication and manufacturing workshop. Some of our students are now working for practices including Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Foster + Partners.
- But this isn’t your only career option. With the skills in communication, leadership and teamworking you’ll have developed, you could go on to a career in:
- lighting
- theatres
- museums
- productions and exhibition design.
- One of our recent graduates is using the knowledge and experience they gained on the course and applying this to their work in environmental psychology.
- You may consider continuing with interior architecture at further study or postgraduate research. Or use the knowledge you’ve gained to take on postgraduate study in a related discipline.
Entry Requirements
- Standard offer:
- UCAS Tariff Points: 128
- A Level: ABB
- IB Points: 32
- BTEC: DDM
- Contextual offer:
- UCAS Tariff Points: 104
- A Level: BCC
- IB Points: 29
- BTEC: DMM
- Further offer details:
- We welcome applications from candidates with alternative qualifications, and from mature students.
- Specific entry requirements:
- Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
- Selection process:
- Applicants will need to provide a portfolio (eg sketches, freehand/technical drawings, life drawings, 3D models, paintings, photographs).
- Selected candidates will be invited for an interview.
English Language Requirements
- Please see the University's standard English language requirements.
- English requirements for visas:
- If you need a student visa to enter the UK you will need to meet the UK Visas and Immigration minimum language requirements as well as the University's requirements.
Tuition Fees
- 2025 / 26:
- Home (UK) full time: £9,535
- Home (UK) part time: £1,190 per single module
- International full time: £17,750
- 2026 / 27:
- Home (UK) full time: £9,535*
- Home (UK) part time: £1,910 per single module*
- International full time: £18,250
Funding Your Studies
- Financial support and scholarships:
- Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students
- Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students
- Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students
- Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students
- Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students
Additional Costs
- Compulsory costs:
- You will be expected to keep a sketchbook, produce specific drawings and make models using a variety of media, mostly out of recycled and inexpensive materials, but equipment and consumables such as a portfolio case, pens, glue, knives etc will be needed.
- Although there is provision to show work digitally and many submissions are digital only, the portfolio elements of the course do require some printing.
- Safety boots with steel toe caps
- Optional costs:
- If you choose to participate in any additional, optional trips, you are responsible for any associated costs.
- UK field trip
- Personal laptop onto which you can install specialist software
- You may choose to purchase books to support your studies.
- Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills)
- Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs)
- Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography.
- Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes.
