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The proposed Master’s degree creates opportunities for graduates in Interior Architectural Design, and other related fields, who wish to deepen their academic training and direct it towards professional work of greater scope. It seeks to train an expert level interior designer, with commercial vision, initiative, talent and ability to improvise, as well as creative, performative and innovative capacity.
For this purpose, we propose a master’s degree curriculum with a structure of 90 ECTS, in three semesters, which complements the training offered in the Degree in Interior Architectural Design, implemented at the UPV since 2021.
Royal Decree 633/2010 refers to Design as a strategy shaper and intermediation: “The role of design as a mediator between technology and art, culture, production and consumption is essential in today’s society”. And, on the other hand, “innovation, driven by design, design for sustainability and design for all, contribute to develop aesthetic, socially and environmentally correct solutions and promote a more responsible consumption and a new idea of well-being. Design is a determining factor in the overall management of the company to optimize resources, to point out differences and positions that make it possible to increase its efficiency and quality”.
This master is attached to the area of Engineering and Architecture, and thus its positioning aims to provide greater scope than the referred intermediation, aiming to build an articulated profession because design, innovation and creativity are more relevant both in the current competitive and globalized productivity, as in contemporary society which assumes the visual culture, the videosphere or virtuality. This makes the transformations very fast, requiring transversal profiles.
Objectives of the degree
The main objective of the Master’s degree in Interior Architectural Design is the multidisciplinary training of professionals with the ability to carry out professional projects, with commercial vision, initiative, talent and the ability to improvise and make innovative contributions.
To this end, the main training objectives of the degree are defined, which are listed below:
1.- To position the creative in the culture of his time, so that the designer has a first-class training in current cultural issues, and is able to contribute from the awareness of its temporality.
2.- To introduce the designer in the constructive and industrial processes through the knowledge of their means, systems and processes.
3.- From the subject to understand the architectural language. To understand the role of constructive syntax in the definition of space.
4.- To understand and know how to define the company’s communication policy in relation to corporate objectives, strategies, positioning, public, social and environmental responsibilities.
To provide a complete practical training in the mastery of graphic and computer tools applied to construction and interior design. To acquire the graphic skills to represent space and to communicate.
6.- To develop a professional level of project praxis. Through the project, to know how to experiment with the program, the function, the routes, the various modes of use, the relationships of the inhabitants and between them and the spaces. To understand the interaction through matter, syntax, morphology, color, light, the created environment. To provide all the material, exhibition and display solutions to achieve a project of a professional level.
Taking into account the framework of the degree within the European framework and current legislation, the general objectives of the Master in Architectural Interior Design are to comply with the European Directives on Design (creativity and innovation), the adaptation to the European Higher Education Area defined in the Bologna Declaration, the adaptation to the provisions of the aforementioned decrees that regulate it and the maintenance of the current technical capacity of the Spanish designer to perform all the functions of the interior designer profile as a profession, although sharing competencies with other regulated professions.
Career opportunities
The professional profile of the Higher Degree in Design in the specialty of Interior Design RD 633/2010 (reference of artistic teachings), describes it as: “The interior designer is a professional capable of analyzing, researching and projecting, leading teams of projects and execution of interior design works, as well as acting as a direct interlocutor before the public administrations in the field of their profession.
- Housing and design of interior spaces for habitat.
- Interior designs of commercial and leisure spaces.
- Interior design of administrative spaces.
- Interior design of cultural, educational and recreational spaces.
- Interior designs of ephemeral spaces.
- Rehabilitation of residential interiors.
- Design of public space elements.
- Business management of creative activities.
- Design of the interior spaces of the different transportation systems.
- Management of works, measurements, budgets and risk prevention: interior design field.
- Construction management in the field of interior design.
- Research and teaching.
Aimed primarily at
The proposed Master’s degree creates opportunities for graduates in Interior Architectural Design who wish to deepen their training and direct it towards professional work on a larger scale.
- Graduates in Interior Architectural Design.
- Graduates in Fundamentals of Architecture.
- Graduates in Building Engineering.
- Graduates in Design Engineering.
- Graduates in Fine Arts.
- Other engineering degrees that want to complement their training.
- Professionals with non-university training who seek to regularize their training at a university level.
Structure of the master’s degree
Credits: 90 ECTS
Mandatory:54 ects |Electives:27 ects |External internships:0 ects |Final Master’s thesis (TFM):9 ects
Module 1. Fundamentals of Advanced Design :9 ects mandatory
Subject:Creative and cultural foundations
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Technical fundamentals of design
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Module 2. Innovative Design Instruments :18 ects mandatory
Subject:Innovative company instruments
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Innovative graphic tools
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Advanced technical instruments
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Advanced communication tools
Minimum credits: 4.5 | Character: Compulsory
Module 3. Professionalizing :24 ects mandatory
Subject:Professional workshop 1
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Professional workshop 2
Minimum credits: 12 | Character: Mandatory
Module 4. Electives :27 compulsory ects
Subject:Introductory elective
Minimum credits: 9 | Character: Elective
Subject:Specific electives
Minimum credits: 18 | Character: Elective
Note: In this subject a maximum of 18 ECTS can be carried out in external curricular internships (The syllabus contemplates a maximum of 18 ECTS for external curricular internships).
Module 5. Master’s Thesis :12 ects mandatory
Subject:TFM Laboratory
Minimum credits: 3 | Character: Mandatory
Subject:Master’s Thesis
Minimum credits: 9 | Character: Final Degree Project
Internships
During your training in the master’s program, you will have the opportunity to carry out external internships that will bring you closer to the real environment of professional activity. These experiences can take place in leading companies in the sector or in institutions linked to Innovation in the Habitat, giving you direct contact with the working world.
Advantages of internships
By completing these internships, you will be able to obtain up to 18 ECTS in the subject “Specific Electives”, thus adding an important academic value to your training.
- Real work experience in a professional environment.
- Development of key transversal skills for selection and job search processes.
- A direct bridge to job opportunities at the end of your studies.
ETSA Support
ETSA’s Internship Unit will guide you through the entire process, from requirements to available offers. For more information, click here: https://www.upv.es/contenidos/PETSA/
Research and access to PhD.
The key research areas of the faculty involved in the degree are:
- Theory and criticism in architecture and design:
- It deals with the theory, criticism and evolution of housing, the philosophy of architecture, the criticism of interior design, and the modernization of architecture after the Civil War in Spain.
- Aspects of the relationship between craftsmanship, industry, design, and the gender perspective in architecture and design are included.
- Innovation in materials and construction techniques:
- Study of the use of materials such as wood, concrete and ceramics in architecture, with emphasis on sustainability, energy efficiency and recycling of materials.
- Research on advanced building systems, industrialization, energy efficiency, and rehabilitation of historic buildings.
- Innovation in structural behavior, seismic resilience and optimization of structures, including modular and lightweight systems.
- Sustainable architecture and resilience:
- Research on green transition, resilience and sustainability in buildings and cities.
- Analysis of the impact of climate change on real estate valuation and real estate obsolescence.
- Study of social integration and economic development in urban and rural areas, especially in relation to industrial heritage.
- Evaluation of architectural rehabilitation and infrastructure management through technology.
- Advanced technology and tools:
- Use of technologies such as geomatics, virtual reality and programming applied to parametric design for simulation and optimization in architecture.
- Agile methodologies for graphic survey and architectural analysis, as well as the application of photography and parametric design in research.
- Interaction between space, light and human perception:
- Research on the analysis of natural and artificial light in environments and its impact on human behavior.
- Studies on chromatic perception in architecture, especially in modern and contemporary architecture.
- Education and pedagogy in architecture:
- Research on the pedagogy of the commons and co-design in collaborative projects, as well as ways of inhabiting and public-private relationship models.
These lines reflect a broad and interdisciplinary approach that addresses from the theory and critique of architectural design to the application of new technologies and the study of materials, integrating the concepts of sustainability, resilience and social and cultural integration.
Academic exchange / agreements with other universities
ETSA has more than 130 active agreements with European and non-European Union schools, in addition to the UPV agreements managed by the OPII.
The institutions of higher education with which exchange agreements of interest for this degree are maintained are:
- B ANTWERP01 – UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
- B DIEPENB01 – UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT
- B LEUVEN01 – KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
- B MECHELE14 – THOMAS MORE MECHELEN-ANTWERPEN
- CH LUGANO03 – SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA
- D BERLIN44 – BERLIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
- D DUSSELD03 – HOCHSCHULE DÜSSELDORF (HDS)
- D KAISERS02 – FACHHOCHSCHULE KAISERSLAUTERN
- D LEMGO01 – FACHHOCHSCHULE LIPPE UND HÖXTER
- D MAINZ08 – HOCHSCHULE MAINZ – UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
- D TRIER02 – FACHHOCHSCHULE TRIER – HOCHSCHULE FÜR TECHNIK, WIRTSCHAFT UND GESTALTUNG
- F NANTES13 – ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D`ARCHITECTURE DE NANTES – ENSANANTES
- HU -PECS01 – PÉCSI TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM
- I MACERAT02 – ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS OF MACERATA
- I MILANO02 – POLITECNICO DI MILANO
- I PALERMO01 – UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
- I ROMA01 – UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA `LA SAPIENZA` – UNIVERSITY OF ROME `LA SAPIENZA`.
- I VENEZIA02 – UNIVERSITA IUAV DI VENEZIA
- P FUNCHAL03 – UNIVERSIDADE DA MADEIRA
- P PORTO08 – ESCOLA SUPERIOR ARTÍSTICA DO PORTO
Facilities and laboratories
The teaching of the MUDAI specialty master’s degree is carried out at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The ETSA has teaching spaces in sufficient number and size to ensure a good organization of teaching. These spaces are the following:
- 65 Classrooms, of different types and surfaces to meet the needs and demands of teaching. With adequate conditions for teaching in terms of furniture and equipment, sound, lighting and environmental comfort.
- 6 Computer classrooms.
- Laboratories:
- Laboratory of Graphic Techniques and 3D Computer Graphics Models
- Architectural Drawing Laboratory
- Computerized Graphic Expression Laboratory
- Architectural Physics Laboratory
- Physics Extension Laboratory
- Acoustics Laboratory
- Construction Materials Laboratory
- Mechanical test room
- Concrete test room
- 6 Computer graphics laboratories
The Architectural Information Center (CIA) is an exclusive service of the School of Architecture to support teaching and research, as well as a space for group work.
Master’s Thesis
The Master’s Thesis will consist of an original exercise, carried out individually and defended, in a public act, before a University Tribunal following the regulations established for this purpose by the Universitat Politècnica de València, in which the knowledge, techniques and skills acquired in the master’s degree are synthesized, with two modalities:
- In the professional modality: to elaborate a project of interior design, together with its memory documents, representation, and associated costs that develop a complete and specific professional work.
- In the research modality: to elaborate a proposal that starts from theoretical reflection but is not exempt from associated graphic and projectual work, understanding that creativity in design is not a laboratory creativity, nor a complex theoretical reflection of shallow scope, but a creativity of practical character and therefore all research should be formalized graphically including part of interior design with its own contribution. Visual culture also requires a reflection on its scope and transformative capacity.
It has a duration of 9 ECTS and is developed in semester 3.
Collaborating companies
The relationship that ETSA maintains with the business world through the Business Chairs, makes it possible to bet on a practical training rooted in the productive world, linked to the most relevant organizations and entities of the sector.
Corporate Chairs
- Cátedra Blanca, signed with CIMSA, which promotes the use of white concrete.
- Ascer Chair, signed with the Spanish Association of Ceramic Tile Manufacturers.
- Cátedra Living, signed with the company Living Ceramics.
- Maderamen Chair, in collaboration with GVA, agreement signed with the DG of Housing.
- Housing Innovation Chair, in collaboration with GVA, agreement signed with the Housing DG.
