Randy Stauffer, Department Chair
randy.stauffer@woodbury.edu

Located in the L.A. area, immediately adjacent to the international media center of Burbank, the Interior Architecture department is well-suited to meet the exciting challenges and opportunities of the new millennium. Students explore how the physical and social join to create interior spaces infused with aesthetic and cultural relevance. Program and rituals of inhabiting space inform the design and discernment of spatial form, color, light, and materials.

A dynamic environment is created in studios with limited enrollment. Here students receive individualized instruction and interact with an energetic, engaged faculty representing both established and emerging voices in design education and practice. In addition, professional designers and educators from outside the department visit regularly to lecture and review student projects.

As part of an actively involved university community, the Interior Architecture Studios participate in interdisciplinary courses and collaborative projects with the other Woodbury design departments in Architecture, Animation Arts, Environmental Graphics, Graphic Design, and Fashion Design.

This unique complement of professional degree design majors creates a stimulating interaction of people, events, and programs that provides an educational context both rigorous and exciting.

The department’s academic facilities provide dedicated and secure studio environments available twenty-four hours a day to all students in third and fourth year design studios. First and second year studios, as well as support courses are scheduled in large, open studio.

In addition, several dedicated studios and design laboratories are provided for student use. These up to date, well equipped facilities include: Multimedia lab (Mac workstations), PC lab, Wood shop (welding and wood-working), Materials Resource library.

A studio intensive curriculum addresses an interior practice that embraces all aspects of the interior environment as an integrated component of architectural form.

Students gain competency in basic problem solving, formal and conceptual design methods, and understanding of human behavioral factors in design, knowledge of interior and building technologies and presentation and communication skills.

The expected result of the curriculum is the production of designers who are confident when confronted with the unknown, and who actively seek its borders in order to propose alternative design solutions.

With the experience and skills gained at Woodbury, our graduates are able to gain design positions in interior design, interior architecture and architecture firms as well as enter competitive graduate programs in architecture and design and the visual arts.