Interior Architectural Design is a Santa Monica College award-winning program in the Design Technology Department located at the Academy Campus at 1660 Stewart Street in Santa Monica, California. Students focus on professional career development, academic transfer, an Associate of Arts Degree, and personal and professional skills useful in the local and international Architecture and Design Industry. The program applies artistic and functional principles and techniques to the professional planning, designing, and furnishing of residential and commercial interior spaces. It also includes the processes and techniques of designing living, working and leisure indoor environments as integral components of a building system. It includes instruction in design, drafting, careers, color coordination, surface materials and textiles, sketching, computer aided design, historical and contemporary furniture and housing, interior lighting, business principles, interior codes, digital rendering, model building, green design, universal design, on-site internships with local trade businesses, and applications to office, hotel, restaurant and housing design. There are also specialized courses for Set Design and Advanced CAD. Designer careers include homes, kitchens/baths, offices and other retail uses, space planning, remodeling, specifying, sketching, management, staging for real estate sales, consulting, lighting, retail sales, preservation, health care, green design, and universal design.
