The Department of Interior Architecture (IARC) is a community of scholars active in design theory and practice. We transcend the accepted definitions of interior spaces, their appearances, their functions, human interactions within and outside them, and their impact on the world. Within the IARC Department, students and faculty engage in regional, national, and international design discourses, practices, and processes to unite interior spaces with enclosing architecture and the objects contained within them. You can read more about the IARC Department, our Vision and Core Values here.

The IARC Department directs award-winning interior design, visual communication, product design and prototyping and digital design studios.

As a hallmark of IARC, we encourage students and faculty to undertake interesting work both in and outside the studio. Several interfaces provide ways to easily see what is happening in studio and beyond:The IARc Blog, history/theory blog, interior lighting design blog, CAD seminar blog and reports from the field.

The Department of Interior Architecture offers both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Interior Architecture. The BS is a four-year professional degree and the MS is a post-professional degree with opportunities for concentrations in historic preservation, museum studies, interior product design.

IARC is a department of the School of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro