Interiors Architecture and Design MA at Middlesex University

Programme overview

This MA encourages creative investigation, experimentation and innovation in order to extend your knowledge and skills in the creation of new environments. The potential and limits of the ‘interior’ are explored across a range of contemporary contexts through field research, studio and online workshops, media practices, critical analysis, and design. This course supports you in developing your individual practice and approach to interior spaces and places, encouraging exploration of interiority from the scale of objects and furniture to the wider urban context of the city.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries | Department: School of Design | Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time | Study mode: full-time (part-time available) | Intake: September 2027 | Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The Interiors (Architecture and Design) MA is structured across five flexible modules over three terms (full-time), allowing you to bring your own interests into each assignment while extending your creative practice through research, design development, and a formal design proposal. Modules include Rethink and Reuse, Research and Record, Design Development: Adaptive Reuse, Research by Design, Sustainable Interiors: Synthesis.

Career pathways

This course will prepare you for a diverse range of careers foremost within the interior design, architecture and wider design industry, but also within other creative and cultural industries. These may include product, furniture, exhibition design, spatial design and more. Roles include Interior designers, Architects, Teachers, Product Designers, Researchers, Writers.

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Application information

Entry requirements

We normally require a 2:2 degree or above, or equivalent qualification, in Interior Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design or Design, although other subjects may be valid. We also consider candidates with other relevant qualifications. Entry onto this course requires a review of your portfolio. For more information please see the Portfolio tab.

Domestic applicants: GBP 14,200 a year (2027/28). Full-time rate. Part-time students: £93 per credit (not included). Source

International applicants: GBP 21,200 a year (2027/28). Full-time rate. Part-time students: £142 per credit (not included). Source

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply-for-taught-courses/

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