Interior Architecture and Design

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
School of Doctoral Programmes

This field of studies gives the opportunity to develop the research, organize, record and re-elaborate abilities with the purpose of knowing and divulging historical as well as contemporary documents in the interior design discipline (architecture, furnishing, decoration, scenography, installations, museology, furniture production).
Doctorate students learn to develop their abilities in the problem framing, programming, technical elaboration and management of particularly complex projects for specific areas related to the disciplinary sector.

Besides the development of a specific individual curriculum, the candidates will be able to span the whole discipline of Interior Architecture and Installations, articulating their studies according to appropriate analytical and design scales in different sectors.

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Disciplines:

• Civil Engineering, Architecture & Construction
• Industrial Design

Location: Milano / Italy

Duration: 36 months

Start Date: October

Educational Form: Academic PhD

Education Variants: Fulltime

Funding:

• National: partial
• EEA: partial
• Non EEA: partial

Location flexibility: Primarily at University

Project type: Open PhD programme

Credits (ECTS): 180

Languages: English Italian

Qualifying elements of the curriculum:

• Customised teaching methods aimed at developing each student’s specific aptitudes in different areas of design, theoretical and critical historical research;
• Analysis of complex paradigms and development of split up methodologies of intervention with interdisciplinary integrations for proposing, design, theoretical and critical historical research purposes;
• Creation of virtual and actual models and application of computerized and classic simulation tools for the control of figurative, material, metric, chromatic, energy and light properties

Study methods:

• Lectures, training sessions, guided tours and seminar cycles given by teachers of the College and by visiting Professors;
• Workshop research in fields such as critical history and design, carried out through teaching, cooperation activities and horizontal and vertical exchange between students of different cycles;
• Individual research aided by tutors with the contribution of the entire teaching staff.

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