Interior Architecture & Design
Create environments that tell a story.
The world is changing, and the way we design our environments—the spaces where we live, shop, work, and relax—matters more than ever. With CCAD’s Interior Architecture & Design program, you’ll find the facilities, tools, and faculty to help you make your design vision real. Here, you’ll learn how to design spaces that are beautiful and functional.
Our program focuses on a user-centered approach, meaning we start with the needs of the people who will be using a space. From there, students research, plan, design, and problem solve through real world exercises. Our flexible curriculum means you can choose to specialize in the area that interests you the most, whether that’s retail, residential, or educational spaces, furniture design, or environmental design. And you’ll take courses focused on hand sketching, computer modeling and rendering, drafting, and communications, giving you a range of skills that will help you succeed whichever direction you choose.
Interior Architecture & Design student work
Brutalism
Colton Vance
Night rendering of bar and lounge
Kayneisha Holloway
Coworking Space
Kayla Guy
Rooftop Restaurant
Quianna Marie
Pop-up Bookstore
Skylar Dalbenzio
Brutalism
Colton Vance
2025
Computer generated drawings
Night rendering of bar and lounge
Kayneisha Holloway
2020
Digital
Coworking Space
Kayla Guy
2021
Digital
Rooftop Restaurant
Quianna Marie
2022
Digital
Pop-up Bookstore
Skylar Dalbenzio
2022
Digital
Spaces to Make
Our campus has the tools and the spaces to help you make your vision real.
Create professional-looking renderings in our print and computer labs and furniture prototypes and models in our wood shop.
Material samples, catalogs, and flat file storage give you access to real-world supplies and references.
The Tad Jeffrey Fablab includes laser cutters and 3D printers for prototype fabrication of models, furniture, and objects.
Faculty
Meet the people who will help you along your creative and professional journey.
Adjunct Faculty
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Joel Burke[email protected]
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Erika Chirafisi[email protected]
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Mary Dietsch[email protected]
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Daniel Mayer[email protected]
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Richard Rozewski[email protected]
Course Spotlight
DESIGN METHODS
Learn about the materials used to design and build functional, beautiful spaces. Through hands-on projects, lectures, and more, you’ll explore how materials, textiles, and furnishings are made, how they function, and how they can be used.
Interior Architecture & Design First Year Experience
Academic Year
Total Credit Hours
Freshman Year - Fall
| Course Title |
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| 2D Creative Practices |
| Systems of Drawing |
| Collaboration |
| Art History |
| Writing & the Arts |
Freshman Year - Spring
| Course Title |
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| Intro to Design |
| What Can a Drawing Do |
| 3D Making with Care |
| History of Design & Applied Arts |
| Math Quantitative Literacy |
Interior Architecture & Design careers
After earning their BFA in Interior Architecture & Design, our graduates leave ready to take on such roles as:
- Design researcher
- Design salesperson
- Design strategist
- Educational designer
- Furniture designer
- Interior architect
Recent employers
- Big Red Rooster
- Chute Gerdeman
- Design Collective
- Fitch
- FRCH NELSON
- Gap
- Gensler
- L Brands
- Moody Nolan
- NBBJ
- Roto
- Safdie Architects
- WD Partners
Interior Architecture & Design News
Rose White (Interior Design, 2019) was a voracious reader in high school and on one of the many afternoons she spent reading at the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s main branch, she came across a book, Brooklyn Interiors, that would inspire her career path into interior design.
As a project manager at WD Partners, a branding agency in Columbus, Courtney Patton wears many hats. In addition to helping designers on her teams with everything from idea mapping to prototype rendering, she also has to seamlessly juggle multidisciplinary team schedules, client expectations, keeping her desk’s popular candy jar fully loaded, and so much more.
