Interior Architecture and Design Major
Create Dynamic Environments
Interior Architecture and Design invites your sense of wonder and curiosity about space and the built environment. You’ll transform your understanding of the relationship between human interaction and space, creating dynamic interior environments grounded by client-driven requirements and user needs.
Through focused, active engagements in residential, office, retail, exhibition and healthcare design, you’ll expand your view of materiality and its effects on space and people. You’ll use compositions of colors, textures, lighting and furnishings to set the mood for spaces to inhabit, both commercial and residential.
Our Curriculum
You’ll learn and use the latest in design and visualization techniques and software for professional outcomes, with industry colleagues providing project feedback and validation. MIAD’s Interior Architecture and Design major positions you in the heart of the Historic Third Ward, a thriving design and creative district. There are over 20 architecture and interior design firms located within a half-mile of the campus employing both MIAD student interns and full-time alumni.
Interior Architecture and Design by the numbers. 70% of the top architectural firms in Milwaukee employ MIAD alumni. Rinka+ engages Milwaukee youth in architecture, interiors and brand media work through MIAD’s Design Internship program and employs several MIAD alumni. The 4 largest architecture firms in Milwaukee – Eppstein Uhen Architects, Kahler Slater, HGA and Plunkett Raysich Architects – are within walking distance of MIAD. More than two dozen interior architecture projects have been completed by MIAD students on our campus.
Top Employers
Interior Architecture and Design grads have designed interiors and environments for Starbucks, Calvin Klein, Aurora Health Care, Kohl’s Corporation, Kohler Company and Trek Bicycles.
Student Work
Mason Wojtyla, Interior Architecture and Design, 2024
Leah Beining, Interior Architecture and Design Senior Exhibition, 2024
Charlie Northway, Interior Architecture and Design Senior Exhibition, 2024
Madison Whitehead, Interior Architecture and Design, 2020
Ali Suski, Interior Architecture and Design, 2022
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Marycruz Romero, Interior Architecture and Design, 2021
Emma Johnson, Interior Architecture and Design, 2021
Ali Suski, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
Abigail Roman, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
Drew Huck, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
Jenna Slabe, Interior Architecture and Design, 2022
Drew Huck, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
Allana Setzer, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
Maddie Fuller, Interior Architecture and Design, year unknown
What Can I do with my Major?
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
3D Modeler
A
Architect
E
Environmental Designer
Exhibit Designer
F
Facility Planner
Furniture Designer
I
Interior Architect
Interior Decorator
Interior Designer
L
Lighting Designer
M
Model Maker
P
Property Designer
S
Scenic Designer
V
Visual Merchandising Designer