Application deadline: March 1, 2017
We invite you to apply to the Piet Zwart Institute:
Priority deadline: March 1, 2017 (international and EU applicants)
Applications are welcomed from candidates with a Bachelor or Master degree.
Application guidelines
Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design, [MIARD] at the Piet Zwart Institute enters a new era with a multidisciplinary design-research profile aimed to advance and expand the practice of Interior Architecture.
MIARD at the Piet Zwart Institute is a postgraduate programme part of the Willem de Kooning Academy at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Our distinguished international programme offers students a unique Master level design-research education with a critical and experimental focus on the complex and developing field of Interior Architecture. Design as research is viewed as multidimensional, circulating along numerous pathways and scales, from the local to the global, from objects to architecture and beyond. Students are expected to be independent and forward thinking. Our multidisciplinary and proactive approach to design education creates a sense of openness, possibility and intellectual rigor to nurture innovative designers.
The international student community at MIARD works closely with a notable staff of architects, interior architects, designers, artists, researchers and experts from a variety of disciplines. Our staff provides a diverse and stimulating educational culture for students to advance their knowledge, professional network and career opportunities. We also maintain an active public programme including events that showcase our community, projects and publications. Public talks, symposiums, and conversations are complimented by national and international exhibitions and excursions. Every year, prominent practitioners from diverse disciplines are invited to talk and work with our students and staff.
A unique quality of our programme is the concept of making public. We exhibit and promote student work, and participate in professional events and external collaborations with renowned institutions. Recent work by students and alumni has been exhibited at Salone del Mobile Milano, Het Nieuwe Instituut, TENTLondon among others. Our projects have earned international press in publications such as Domus, Dezeen, Archinect, and Designboom. MIARD was recently published as a “leading international Master programme” in Frame Magazine book Masterclass: Interior Design, Guide to the World’s Leading Graduate Schools.
Students work in state-of-the-art facilities and are provided spacious design studios to work on their projects. In our building, students have access to production “stations” that are equipped with analogue and digital technologies with highly-skilled technicians available to help realize their work. Finally, we are located in the center of Rotterdam, a post-industrial, culturally diverse global and creative city renowned for architecture, design and the arts. And as a contemporary programme, we operate from the point of view that design education today must be adaptable to a variety of external forces to remain relevant and forward thinking.
For questions about the application procedure, please contact us via:
pzwart-info [at] hr.nl / T +31 (0)10 794 7405
For the complete program description visit our website.
Contact
Piet Zwart Institute
P.O. Box 1272
3000 BG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
