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Welcome to Miami University's Architecture and Interior Design Department. We're really glad to have this chance to tell you about our programs. Our programs operate side by side in this beautiful building we call Alumni Hall. We have eight semesters of studio education paired with history and theory and environmental systems and building technology and other elective classes. The architecture and interior design degrees are part of the College of Creative Arts. And as such we have many opportunities for you to experience other types of creative majors or extracurricular activities like courses and clubs. The architecture and interior design majors can be paired with a minor if you want. You can study abroad with us. And you can also study off campus in our Center for Community Engagement in Over the Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. Our study abroad programs go globally we've often gone to London, and we have a design build program in Ghana in Africa. Whether you choose to have your major in architecture or interior design your part of the College of Creative Arts. We're here to help you find your creativity and find your unique place in the professions in the design fields. Now we're happy to give you a tour of our beautiful building Alumni Hall. My name is J. Elliot I’m on the faculty of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design and we're standing outside of Alumni Hall the home of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design. Today we’re going to walk through the building look at some of the spaces you might occupy if you were a student here. Studio spaces the atrium rotunda of our excellent old building here in the very heart of campus. This is the rotunda the first part of the building you’ll see when you enter. We think it's probably one of the grandest architectural spaces on campus. This is the atrium sort of the heart of our building. We have parties here and we have final critiques. This is the second-year studio it houses architecture majors and interior design majors. They're in their separate studios. Each studio is team taught by multiple faculty who divide the group into sections working on the same projects giving the students a variety of input. This is one of our upper-level studios individual faculty will have a group of students to working on a project with that faculty member for the entire semester. There are three to four different studio sections in this room at one time. This is another one of our spaces in the building that houses upper-level studios both architecture and interior design. It's again a group of three to four different studios working on different projects with individual faculty members. Some of the projects that you might work on could be the interdisciplinary studio with architecture interior design majors that happens in the spring. If you're an interior design major, you would be working on your final thesis project in this space as well. This is the first-year studio space for architecture and interior design students are working together at the foundation level beginning their journey in the building. They will work on the same projects developing their skills. They have graphics classes together in this space and they'll continue having graphics into their second year together. Their work on models and drawings in this space learning the foundations of both architecture and interior design. This is a shop where you can do any type of woodworking imaginable. We also bend steel cut steel and weld steel. You'll make models in this space. You'll learn how to design and construct furniture and in general do anything you need to do in support of your studio classes. Thank you for taking the time to visit our building with us today. We look forward to seeing you in our building hoping you can visit and walk through that space with us. We look forward to seeing a portfolio for admission to the program. And we look forward to you becoming a part of our family we've become a very close-knit group of people in this building right from day one. And it's a very student-centered program faculty and students working together very closely at every year level.