An introduction to key philosophies, issues, practices, theories and concepts related to interior architecture and the interior. Topics will include identity, modes of operating, principles of practice, and theoretical frameworks relating to design methodologies, the person-environment relationship, aesthetics and experience, symbols and meaning, as well as occupation and habitation. Students are encouraged to investigate design as a process as well as drawing and modeling as ways of thinking as well as a mode of communication and representation. -- Course Website