The Interior Architecture & Design course is based upon international standards, focusing upon creative and inclusive Interior Architecture & Design development. It is a three-dimensional spatial interior environment led course with focus towards meeting user needs. It celebrates functional and aesthetically attractive design and considers principles of environmental sustainability, ethical practices and regulatory requirements to be key elements which are integrated within curriculum and the design process.

The continual development of a personal portfolio of work will enable them to demonstrate their abilities to potential employers.

Year One: provides students with an understanding of the creative design process and the importance of cultural referencing and research. This work will be underpinned by acquiring the fundamental practical creative and technical skills of measurement, drawing and describing space in two and three dimensions both digitally and through hand drawing and model making.

Year 2 will build upon the skills learned in year one with more opportunity to work in depth on interior related design projects. Students will work with real spaces and creating actual prototyping furniture all with focused attention to entering future professional employment. Project works could include: Domestic and Private Housing, Retail Design, Office design, Exhibition Design / Installations, Design within the leisure and hospitality industries including hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, spas, fitness centres, theatres and entertainment centres.

Year 3 will be completed with a final project to showcase students' work from the course at our Graduate Design Show. Intership, collaborative projects are introduced in this year to support students to be confident to enter the industry with a wide range of a career directions.

• Ideas Generation
• Visual Communication
• Design Method
• Design Principles
• Contextual and Cultural Referencing
• 2D, 3D specialist drawing technologies
• Properties of 3D Materials
• Interior Design
• Furniture Design
• Exhibition & Retail Design
• Project Design Implementation and Evaluation
• Professional Practice

LCDF-Hanoi provides a full time bachelor programme with options for studying at LCDF-Hanoi and partner Universities in the UK. Many students have transferred and completed their study on BA (Hons) degrees or higher at the following Universities:

• Northumbria University (Newcastle)
• University of the Arts London
• University of Creative Arts (London)
• The University of the West of England (Bristol)
• The University of Middlesex (London)
• The University of Gloucestershire (Cheltenham & Gloucester)
• Birmingham City University (Birmingham)
• Instituto Marangoni (London)
• Instituto Marangoni (Italy)
• Arts University Bournemouth
• Kingston University (Greater London)
• University of East London
• University of Hertfordshire ( Hatfield)
• Loughborough University (Cambridge)
• Nottingham Trend University
• Salford University (Manchester)
• Sheffield Hallam University
• Savannah College of Arts and Design (USA)
• Colombus College of Arts and Design (USA)

Some students also have transferred to study at other countries such as Savannah College of Art and Design (USA), Colombus College of Art & Design (USA), France, and Italy to continue their studies. Students are therefore able to experience more of an international lifestyle by studying outside Vietnam.

Teaching encompasses design studio practice, formal lectures, group seminars, tutorials, exhibition and store visits, presentations and practical workshops.

Assessment occurs at the end of each semester with informal critiques held at appropriate times throughout the year.

The employment potential is currently growing within Interior Design. Graduate destinations include: Commercial Interior Designer, Retail Designer, Exhibition Designer, Interior Decorator, Interior Stylist,

Space Planner, Lighting Designer, Furniture Designer, Project Manager, Draughtsperson.

Project work could include: Domestic and Private Housing, Retail Design, Office design, Exhibition Design/ Installations, Design within the leisure and hospitality industries including hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, spas, fitness centres, theatres and entertainment centres.