Preamble

The university structure of our Art School helps students to recognize their own strength and their individual aims and to express them. We aim to encourage students to develop visions and we teach them to recognize design challenges and to take them on in an independent, flexible, and fresh way. Their most important prerequisite is the mastership of the instruments of the discipline they have chosen to focus on during their studies.

Interior Architecture Study

The educational programme at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle has prepared for the future with a wide range of differentiated study courses on offer. According to the development of the professional demands on an interior architect it has developed a number of new application fields, including the design of events and presentations, the participation in corporate design strategies, and the formulation of virtual rooms and spaces. However, an interior architect´s traditional professional field will remain at the core of the study: an individual´s immediate surroundings. To design furniture is as much part as is the planning and the realisation of temporary structures, i.e. at fairs and exhibitions. In spite of all these new tasks, an interior architect will remain an architect who is specialized on interior spaces.


Modularisation, course of study, and educational concept

The complete teaching programme is divided into five modules. These function specifically related to one subject but also inter-disciplinary.

Modules related specifically to one subject
1 Module area EK - Design Skills: Fundamentals/Drafts/ Projects/ Final Piece
2 Module area BK - Skills in Subject-Related Sciences: varying competence focus according to study field

Inter-disciplinary modules
3 Module area GK - Design and Artistic Skills
4 Module area WK - Scientific Skills
5 Module area IK - Conprehensive, Social and Market-related Skills

Focus of the module areas EK-IA-… and BK-IA-… in the Interior Architecture Programme:
Design Skills - Interior Architecture - Fundamentals (EK - IA - G)
Skills in Subject-Related Sciences - Interior Architecture (BK - IA - …)
Design Skills - Complex Design - Projects (EK - IA - P)

1. Design Skills - Interior Architecture - Fundamentals (EK - IA - G)
In the first four semesters of the Interior Architecture Bachelor study programme at the Burg Giebichenstein, there is a focus on the examination of the artistic, design and planning procedures. The courses on offer are modularized and interdisciplinary. First design and drafting exercises in the four  fundamental fields of Interior Architecture are conveyed in compact seminars (Interior Fittings Construction I, Building Functions I, Fundamentals of Designing Furniture I, Fundamentals of Drafting I).
In the third and fourth semesters, in-depth knowledge on the following subjects is offered: Interior Fittings Construction II + Building up a Repertiore,  Building Functions II + Ergonomics, Fundamentals of Designing Furniture II + Presentation, Fundamentals of Drafting II + Analytic Drawing).

2. Skills in Subject-Related Sciences - Interior Architecture (BK - IA - …)
In this module area, the following skills are trained in different forms of teaching:
Tectonics (BK - IA - T), Interior Fittings (BK - IA - A), Presentation and Tool Competence (BK - IA - D), The lectures that belong to these module areas are sometimes held as block seminars, sometimes as weekly lectures.

3. Design Skills - Complex Design - Projects (EK - IA - P)
In the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eightth semesters, the focus of this study programme is within this module area. In each semester, you can choose from a range of complex projects that are as diverse as are the application fields of Interior Architecture. In the course of these projects, further key competences are conveyed to the students, such as leadership, a communication repertoire that involves different media, organisation skills, synergetic team work and discipline-related intercultural interaction. Students work in small groups, and those groups cooperate in one workshop which is connected to the university server. The study within this module is completed by excursions, workshops, small speeches prepared and held by the students, regular consultations and external professional estimations of the students´ work.

The intercultural activities of the Interior Architecture study programme:
The Interior Architecture department of the Burg Giebichenstein has initiated contacts to Art Schools and Universities in St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Bolzano, and Ohio. With these there is a constant and intense exchange on all academic levels, particularly in the form of guest semesters, seminars and workshops. The Burg Giebichenstein became an official member of the CUMULUS association in May 2005.It is also in this network that international contacts are constantly sought and extended.

visit: www.uiah.fi/cumulus/


number of new students per year

15-20 students in the winter semester.

[Translate to english:] Studium und Abschluss

The bachelor studies are accomplished after a four-year course (240 ECTS Credit points) with the title of (B.A. in Interior Architecture) as of the first cycle and type is represented with an individual portfolio which illustrates the respective studies way and the competences purchased. The next step of the graduate is ideally - identical whether into the professional practice or into secondary master studies at a university in this in or foreign countries supported with this meaningful document.With his acquired bachelor degree the graduate can put down after a two-year professional experience in an interior design office on the interior designer list of the architectural association and the right to the guided tour of this one, title, purchase 'suitors interior designer' with that.

Qualifications:
bachelor of type (B.A.)
master of type (M.A)