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As of the new academic year the courses in Architecture and Interior Design Environment Architectures ( IDEA ) will be Architect Registration Board prescribed and can be used in gaining the qualifications and title of an architect .
The study of the built environment is changing and will continue to change in the coming years , as the need for and type of designer aligns itself to modes of study which are both more economically viable and varied in mode as they are more closely aligned with the increasing specialism and experience demanded by user and legislation .
This acknowledgement that the interior domain and its extension is legitimately architecture has long been the question over which the debate surrounding the place of interior in architecture has hinged .
There is however no need to contemplate a blurring of boundaries , as this new circumstance offers new streams and opportunities of focus for the designers of the future , and a long overdue clarity about the nature of what designers deliver as their outcomes and the skills and knowledge pursuant to a highly technology dependant art .
Sometimes called a specialism of architecture , the interior is for us the starting point of architecture , not the monument or memory , but the place of action and effect . This is not to say that memory is not directly formed by action , but rather that the interior contributes to phenomenon and an understanding of , or reconsideration of typology .
There is no need to restate the position of architecture , as we have been clear about our distinctiveness of approach , but there is still terrain or rather augmented cyber infrastructure which we must engage with , in and of itself , and for which no rules exist . This may come to be called IAVE or Interactive and Virtual Environments .
But it is the aim of architecture to provide us with a sense of consciousness and a direct experience with objects through the framing and ordering of space and form . Which , both in practice and speculation , we regard as beyond any dogma but not beyond formalism , adaptation , history , tradition and culture and yet calls for references which engage with our sense of experiment and the ephemeral .
To use these theories as the basis for engaging with architectural form , marking a new direction in the relationship between architecture , landscape and interior , the three courses work together to unlock a series of undiscovered territories where existing perceptions may be questioned through their qualities as phenomenon and the creation of an ontology , as appropriate to it .
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The conditions which prevail within the city form the matter for our intersections with attitudes , views and opinions about the potential for creative dialogues . That which having been created and is liable to be reformed , that which is recreated in order to be formed and that which is re formed in order to become a creation describe the three prevailing conditions which regardless of scale describe the prevailing positions of space and place making that we are concerned with .
The incorporation of media and virtual domains within the area of form generation remains an area of experiment and a challenge for those who wish to give meaningful effect .
Our manner of action is one of an investigation of the contemporary through polyculture and observation of media , and reconsideration of history through its epistemology .
Of course one may ask what has this to do with designing a playground , a clothes shop or a hotel , but within the scope of these propositions lies a myriad of possibilities linked to material and technology , memory and the phenomenon of ritual .
It is in the experience and the intention that the effect and the purpose of the designer can be considered and the appropriateness of the means by which this is achieved can begin to be evaluated .
What do we ask of ourselves as creatives , when we engage with the urban world ? For here is more than function , the competing requirements , desires and hopes which society invests in its surroundings are more than semiotic babble ; they are the union of commerce and social exigencies .
To make sense of this , sometimes to order and sometimes to confound or delight , is the aim of our pursuit . To realise the importance and value of capital and leverage its contribution to society .
And , as for society , we should increasingly read diaspora displaced and refugee instead of international and travel , the opportunity to look around you as if for the first time and to listen to lexicons not yet mastered , has not become a luxury but a by-product of the global pressures not directly addressed by society , at a time when our skills and resources as shapers of the environment are needed more than ever .
We continue our work in the hope and imagination that the next generation of designers will mark the turning point in the realignment of the elements of our subject , and in the creation of a resilient future .
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