Bridging
Function
and
Aesthetics
As an interior architect you will create spaces and experiences by responding to how humans interact with and inhabit spaces. IIAD prepares you for these challenges of designing built environments, enabling you to give existing spaces a new life through your unique design process.
At the intersection of architecture, interior and experience design, the IA&D course inculcates a multi-disciplinary approach to transforming existing spaces.
Course highlights
- 2/4
Redefine-Redesign
Inside-Out
Thinker & Maker
Critically Creative
Our Interior Architecture Design course is distinguished from courses in interior design and decoration, by our rigorous focus on adaptive reuse, refurbishment and retrofitting as well as detailing technical services. We prepare you to address the emerging trends of living and working in the 21st century, by re-imagining existing spaces and adapting them to changing needs.
While an architect looks at space and structures from the outside, an interior architect takes an inside-out perspective. You learn to respond to how humans inhabit and interact with interior environments through sensitive design. We focus on detailing and design of micro elements within the macro environment.
Our philosophy of thinking-through-making encourages students to develop their design ideas through hands-on-working with a variety of media and materials. We set a fine balance between traditional skills, contemporary practices and future technology.
Rigorous analysis of ideas and beliefs by self-critique paves the way for excellence. You learn to balance your intuitive thinking and logical reasoning, leading to better design solutions. Students get set on a creative adventure, empowering them to become self-reflective practitioners.
COURSE DETAIL
COURSE DETAIL
- Undergraduate
STUDENT WORK
– Kanika Agarwal, Interior Architecture and Design

Sakshi Sarawgi designed a luxurious residence as part of an internship at NSN Studio Devine.

Student documenting their Ideation process through sketches

Fejin Ali - worked on creating an art gallery museum as part of the major design project in the final year

Palak Jain - a terrace design of a residential space as part of the major design project (final year).

Alumni thesis project wherein the student worked on a Pepper manufacturing workspace in Calicutt and converted it into an art gallery museum. Fejin Ali-Alumini

As part of a pop-up store project, students learnt about temporary structures. This display system was made by Mansi Almadi at the IIAD campus.

Interior Architecture and Design student, Anjali Chauhan, designed a pop-up store The focus of this project was to learn about temporary structures by designing a display system. The Select City Walk Mall, New Delhi, is in talks with IIAD to help create temporary retail structures for the mall.
success stories
Himanshi Dadhich
Interior Architecture and DesignINTERNED AT
Dronah
PLACED AT
Kaaru
2019 BATCH

Abhinav N
Interior Architecture and DesignINTERNED AT
Hitesh Katiyar Architects
PLACED AT
Incor Group (Boston Living)
2019 BATCH

Simran Bhatia
Interior Architecture and DesignINTERNED AT
Sagar Nagpal Architect
PLACED AT
Incubis
2019 BATCH

“From being the Student Council President to finally being an Interior Architect, the journey was really about discovering myself as a sensitive designer who is responsible towards society as a whole.”
“Faculty are the best books we have. We learn from them both inside and outside the studio”
“It is not just old knowledge getting passed down. If a new concept is introduced in the industry, it finds its way into the classroom.”
CAREER
What does an Interior Architect do?
As an Interior Architect you have several choices –You can choose to work on residences, offices, retail, hospitality, institutions and conservation projects as well as specialise in interior styling and visual merchandising. You can also explore select avenues such as exhibition design, set design, experience design, furniture design and scenography. If you enjoy the challenge of running your own practice, you can be an entrepreneur.
FACULTY
course
leaders
Snehanshu Mukherjee
ProfessorInterior Architecture and DesignWith over 38 years of experience in the field of architecture and design, he also has over 30 years of experience as an academician. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He went on to do a post-graduation as an Inlaks Scholar from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.) graduating in 1988 with a specialization in Design & Housing. While at MIT he won a competition and went on to build an installation on the Boston Commons depicting Boston in the year 2010.
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course
leader
Madhu Pandit
Associate ProfessorMadhu Pandit is the Associate Professor in the Interior Architecture and Design Department at the Indian Institute of Art & Design. As Partner at NMA (Neeraj Manchanda Architects, founded 1990), an award winning Architectural and Interior Design practice based in New Delhi, Madhu has enjoyed balancing teaching with professional practice for several years now.. NMA has worked successfully with clients and stakeholders across projects in the institutional, commercial, residential, and industrial domains in India, Nepal, and Vietnam Madhu has a wide body of work in Adaptive Reuse (breathing new life into old) for historical buildings.
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Rashim Mahajan
Associate Professor“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin With more than a decade of experience, Rashim has always been a firm believer and preacher of “Learning by Doing”. She is versatile and open to learning, with multiple feathers in her hat. She is an Architect, Interior Designer and a Scientific Vastu Consultant.
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Rohin Sher
Associate ProfessorOver the last 15 years, Rohin Sher has specialised in understanding, measuring and talking about the adverse effect of modern architecture, interior practices on our environment.
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Mani Sharma
Assistant ProfessorMani enjoys creating experiences in physical and virtual planes and is interested in juxtaposing Art with Design as she explores structure, mixed media and analog interfaces.
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Kanika Arora
LecturerHaving graduated as an Outstanding Scholar from Savannah College of Art and Design (United States), with a Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design, Kanika Arora is a Commercial Interior Designer, Architect, Educator and Panelist. Kanika completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Vastukala College of Architecture, New Delhi and received the Pidilite Award for Excellence in Architectural Studies and Optimum Space Utilization in 2013. Kanika has performed at various renowned platforms including SCAD Show, Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) and the Tiny House Festival sharing her design philosophy, mission and ongoing research with large audiences.
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STUDIO
AND RESOURCES
IIAD’s purpose-built campus aims to meet the dynamic learning-teaching needs of its progressive pedagogy and curriculum. The environment’s adaptive spaces include studios, digital labs with industry standard design softwares and 3D material workshops, which are all designed to facilitate seamless multidisciplinary collaborations and exchanges.

Student working in the Material Construction Lab for an IAD project at the IIAD campus

Interior Architecture and Design student Sushmita Rai with her final project at IIAD’s first graduate show 2019.

Interior Architecture and Design student Shambhavi Gautam setting up her display of the entire year’s work for IIAD’s first graduate show 2019.

IIAD hosts Team Indiefolio, India’s largest online network for creative professionals along with tech giants, HP for a day-long session titled ‘Reinvent Design.’

Arduino Workshop: Prem Sagar, founder of Banaao works with IAD students with the motto to help everyone think, innovate and build
STORIES
Recycling has become second nature to modern communities as we strive to sustain the earth for future generations. Adaptive reuse rests on the premise of restructuring the purpose of spaces; mostly to...
Staying true to our promise, here we are with a blog on some exciting career opportunities in the field of Interior Architecture and Design (IAD). Some of you reading this blog might be still studying...
Design is an ever-evolving vast discipline with innumerable prospects in the field of Interior Architecture and Design. In order to keep pace with the rapid change in the design trends, the design ind...
The power of a positive, aesthetically appealing space is undeniable—we prefer a bright, colourful and perfectly adorned room any given day over one that is dull, dark and lifeless. That’s why con...