Interior Design and Interior Architecture
Blend creative expression and practical application in a career in Interior Design and Interior Architecture. As the area's only part-time program accredited by Council of Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), you learn the ropes from top Bay-Area professionals.
Featured Courses
New! Julia Morgan's Architectural Legacy explores her innovative design philosophy in a one-day lecture and walking tour of this famous architect's work in Berkeley.
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Introduction to Interior Design introduces the profession, its history, and its related specialties and disciplines by studying the work of past and present designers and architects.
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Principles and Elements of Design explores the basic principles of balance, harmony, rhythm, emphasis, contrast, proportion, scale, unity, and variety with a series of projects.
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Bathroom Design teaches the fundamentals of creating a well-designed bathroom including material selection, lighting, and research of plumbing fixtures.
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Free Public Lecture
Body Conscious Design is a three-hour workshop in which the audience gets to experience for themselves how to use body intelligence in design. Somatic theory and history are briefly explained and then experienced through a carefully crafted sequence of exercises.
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Featured Certificates
Certificate Program in Interior Design and Interior Architecture offers design education that combines studio courses with the study of design theory, history, presentation skills, and resources. The program is CIDA (formerly FIDER) certified and takes three to four years to complete.
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Professional Program in Sustainable Design is a year-long program that focuses on developing the mandated knowledge needed by working professionals who want to be leaders in the sustainable, cradle-to-cradle revolution now in progress.
