Semester Interior and Furniture Design
BEAUTY TO CHALLENGE THE WORLD. DO YOU BELIEVE IN IT?
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The ability to portray the designers as a person who will give greater importance to a visual the phenomenon with more fundamental and culturally inclusive approaches rather than the designers’ own taste or style. Our approach is intended to be strongly linked to personal experience through the transmission of a research method. The personal discovery of design origins will broaden the self-consciousness of architectural designers. The interior designer is supposed to design and shape a reference context not only through spatial terms but also through the temporal ones.
Curriculum & Credits
Semester – 5 disciplines (12 weeks)
Spring/ Summer/ Fall
Our interior design classes have several duration from three months up to six months, therefore, the courses start in January, May, and September.
ID 311INTERIOR & FURNITURE DESIGN LAB - 9cr
INTERIOR & FURNITURE DESIGN LAB
This part of our design school in Florence brings the students into direct contact with the reality of interior design. The students will participate in a real project within our firm. In fact, we start from the clients’ requests and we try to understand what they really want and we attempt to discover their true identity. The reason for this is that we need to create a universe in a given space ( residential or store or exhibition). In order to fully understand the fragmented desires and needs ( both ours and the client’s) we must dedicate time to talk about them, in the office and on-site. When we feel that we have gained an intimate knowledge of the clients and the spirit of the place ( Genius Loci) through the filter of our personality we can begin to elaborate the three factors of composition:
a) Construction; b) Function; c) Beauty, which must be united in the final project.
DP 321SKETCHING AND TECHNICAL DRAWING - 4cr
SKETCHING AND TECHNICAL DRAWING
An Architect or Designer is, first of all, a draughtsman and we will help you to improve your skills with sketching sessions in different places such as Piazza Santa Croce, Forte Belvedere, Cantine Antinori, Cappella Pazzi, Santo Spirito Church, Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Palazzo Strozzi and other sites in different cities. In some cases, we will work on a project on these famous sites after an introduction to its history and its spirit. In addition, we will work on technical drawings in our studio.
DP322 HISTORY of ART and HISTORY of DESIGN- 3cr
HISTORY of ART and HISTORY of DESIGN
Whoever studies abroad in Italy will be introduced to the spirit of the art of the Florentine Renaissance and the spread of its philosophy during the following centuries, especially in the spatial and volumetric concepts. We will see all this during our visits to Florence and other Italian cities. The history of design course looks at the development of furniture and interior design over the centuries with special regard for the last sixty years and most particularly at the work of famous designers like Philippe Starck, Mario Bellini, Achille Castiglioni, Enzo Mari, Alvar Aalto, Jean Nuovel, Giugiaro, etc. It will be interesting during the course to explore through research and reading how furniture and interior design unite with the dynamics of artistic expression.
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TD331 TECHNOLOGIES on CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION SITE - 9cr
TECHNOLOGIES on CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION SITE
Control of costs is fundamental because we must operate within the framework of our client’s budget. The knowledge of techniques and new technologies of design ensures our control over our suppliers and their costs on the renovation site or in the factory and it is part of this subject. Thanks to green design and sustainable tecnology we can obtain more effective use of economic resources while safeguarding the environment. For the above, the documents we use are the Technical specification, Bill of Quantities, and the Contracts with clients and suppliers.
HD341 IT DESIGN PROGRAMS - 7cr
IT DESIGN PROGRAMS
We teach our students how to use the basic computer programs ( Autocad and Sketchup or others ) and in successive years we use the more complex programs for the virtual control and verification of our work by means of 2d drawings and 3d models. There is a constant dialog between the physical drawing and computer drawings to allow for a complete expression of the designer’s vision. We go from the feasibility study to the concept design and technical design and finally to detail drawings.
