The Department of Interior Architecture and Built Environment

We study and teach about the relationship between humans and the environments in which they live from the viewpoint of human ecology. Our educational goal is to give students the knowledge, skills, and creativity required throughout the process of planning, designing, and managing the environments in which people live.

Interior Architecture Studies

This major involves not only planning, designing, building, and managing of spaces but also the forms of and systems within buildings. It teaches sustainable design that optimizes resource use. It teaches students how to promote the sustainability of new and existing building spaces by leveraging various environmental creation paradigms to secure a better future for society.

Careers after Graduation

Our graduates largely either go to work in the field or go into research. Those who work in the field often work in the architecture, housing, or interior design divisions of construction companies, architectural design offices, interior architecture offices, planning and design-related companies, architecture firms and their design-related departments, electronics companies, the planning- and design-related departments of local governments, or media and publication companies. Those who go into research often work for design, construction, or housing research institutes, some of which are government-funded, and research or education centers within architecture companies.

Certificate

Certificates that students can acquire related to the interior architecture major are Grade 1 Architect Certificate, Grade 1 Interior Architect Certificate, and Colorist Certificate.

BK21 Co-space 4.0: Space-based Welfare during the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This educational research group’s purpose is to promote human-oriented, social, and technology-based welfare by designing spaces using technology developed and cutting-edge knowledge acquired during the Fourth Industrial Revolution in response to various social problems caused by low fertility rates and a rapidly aging society and to train and educate those who can realize this vision. In order to do so, it plans to increase convergence education that includes education on humanities and social sciences, design, and engineering and opportunities to conduct research that addresses social problems. It will also establish a practical education system that will give students opportunities to conduct research and field training and expand its international exchange system to give students access to more on-site research opportunities and help them grow as global leaders.
BK21 Website: http://yonseiiabk4.org