The BA (Hons) Architecture/BA (Hons) Interior Design course at Norwich University of the Arts combines interior design and architecture disciplines to provide students with a rounded skillset.

The Architecture and Interior Design courses at Norwich University of the Arts begin with a shared first year focused on collaboration. Students work together in an integrated design studio that fosters experimentation and benefits from synergies with the wider university.

The aim is to develop a critical design ethos from the start, with the collaborative studio culture continuing as students progress in their specific course.

Rooted in Norfolk's distinctive context – where centuries-old agriculture and coastal management coexist with innovative technologies and digital start-ups – the courses use Norwich and its landscapes as a living laboratory. Students engage with the city's medieval layers and industrial heritage, eroding coastlines and vulnerable wetland ecologies.

In Year 1, we explore how design enables temporary occupation and adaptive micro-architectures and reactivates disused spaces for socially generous interventions.

Debate, curiosity and risk-taking are central to our teaching. Cutting-edge facilities – including digital fabrication, metal, wood and casting workshops and a dedicated wet lab – support hands-on, materially driven experimentation.

The year begins with 'ways of being', a university-wide transdisciplinary lecture series that explores how we think and act as creative agents in a changing world – integrating nature, technology and critical thought.

Our approach is critically grounded, intellectually ambitious and committed to shaping thoughtful future-facing designers.

School: Norwich University of the Arts, Architecture and Interior Design Programme
Courses: BA (Hons) Architecture (ARB Part 1)/BA (Hons) Interior Design
Type: Undergraduate
Location: Norwich, UK
Course dates: September 2025 to June 2026
Application deadline: 25 August 2025

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What will I learn during this course?

– Skills in spatial practice through collaborative architecture and interior design projects
– Collaboration across disciplines
– Material experiments
– Critical engagement with place
– Skills to design socially generous, adaptive micro-architectures through debate, curiosity and risk-taking

What are the requirements?

– GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BBC (112 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications.

What facilities and resources are available?

– Dedicated studios in a Grade II-listed building in the heart of Norwich
– Industry-standard workshops, digital fabrication labs
– Wet lab
– 3D-printing studio and virtual reality and user experience lab – support both traditional craft and cutting-edge digital design
– Expert technicians run introductory sessions to help students develop essential skills and confidently explore a wide range of tools, techniques and materials

Who teaches this course?

– Prof Dr Teresa Stoppani, director
– Ben Salter, course leader (interior design)
– Claudia Morgado, course leader (architecture)
– Eleni Sousoni, associate lecturer
– Elin Eyborg Lund, associate lecturer
– February Phillips, associate lecturer
– Gabriela Jimenez, senior lecturer
– Gaetano Drago, associate lecturer tutor
– Gustavo Balbela De Azambuja, academic assistant
– Dr George Themistokleous, senior lecturer
– Dr Iuliana Gavril, senior lecturer
– Jason Wiggin, senior lecturer
– Romanos Tsomos, associate lecturer
– Sarah de Villiers, lecturer
– Tony Clelford, senior lecturer tutor
– William Burgess, associate lecturer tutor
– William Hailiang Chen, lecturer

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