Department of Interior Architecture and Design

FSU Interior Architecture and Design students win design competition to memorialize local enslaved population

Published: March 17, 2022 | 1:45 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

FSU Interior Architecture and Design students Hannah Smith, Alana Houston and Sarah Rifqi.

Three Florida State University Department of Interior Architecture and Design graduate students have been selected as winners of the Goodwood Museum & Gardens Memorial to the Enslaved Competition. Students Hannah Smith, Alana Houston and Sarah Rifqi, who were mentored by Assistant Professor Meghan Mick, were awarded $1,000 for their winning design of “A Bridge to […]

Department of Interior Architecture and Design announces new graduate degree

Published: December 7, 2021 | 3:52 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Hotel lobby design by First Professional Master of Science alumni David Roan

Florida State University’s Department of Interior Architecture and Design is introducing a new graduate degree open to all undergraduate majors covering design fundamentals, professional practice and design software. The First Professional Interior Design Master of Science degree will accommodate students with a bachelor’s degree in another field who wish to augment or change their career to interior design practice. “This new degree […]

Interior Architecture and Design professor and chair receives national award for work with shelters, transitional housing

Published: August 24, 2021 | 2:13 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Kearney Emergency Services Center. Art by Judith Rushin. Interior design consultation: Jill Pable and Kenan Fishburne. Architecture by CRA Architects.

Florida State University’s Jill Pable, professor and chair in the Department of Interior Architecture and Design, has received the 2021 Design Luminary Award from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) as part of the association’s National Awards and ASID Fellows programs. The award recognizes Pable’s research on designing healthy spaces that serve homeless people, such as shelters, permanent supportive and transitional housing types. “It is a distinct honor to be […]

FSU College of Fine Arts faculty featured in virtual exhibition ‘What it Takes’

Published: February 2, 2021 | 3:40 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

In a first-of-its-kind virtual faculty exhibition, Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) has brought together the six schools and departments in the College of Fine Arts for a celebration and exploration of the power of research in the arts. “What It Takes” features work from faculty across the college, showing the strengths, visions […]

FSU Interior Architecture and Design instructor redesigns local homeless shelter amid COVID-19 crisis

Published: April 6, 2020 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

External view of the Kearney Center. Photo courtesy of Jill Pable

UPDATE: The Kearney Center has now moved all of its clients from their Municipal Way facility on Tallahassee’s west side to “non-congregate” housing like hotels and apartments to prevent the spread of coronavirus among them. How can interior design support human health? The connections between human well-being and the buildings and rooms people occupy are […]

FSU arts faculty get creative to overcome challenges of remote learning

Published: March 30, 2020 | 4:21 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Whether they’re teaching studio art, dance, music or interior architecture and design, Florida State University faculty in the creative disciplines are facing some unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. When FSU moved to remote learning on March 23, it made most faculty across campus completely rethink their lesson plans. That’s especially true for the arts, where many faculty are reimagining how they normally communicate and teach the best practices of the creative process. But despite these changes, both faculty and […]

Blind architect to be featured speaker at inaugural Master Lecture Series

Published: January 9, 2020 | 11:34 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

The featured speaker for the first Master Lecture Series is Chris Downey, a San Francisco-based architect who lost his eyesight in 2008 after undergoing surgery to remove a benign brain tumor that was pressing against his optic nerve.

The Florida State University College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Florida A&M University School of Architecture and Engineering Technology and the Tallahassee chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), presents the inaugural Master Lecture Series, a new program designed to bring educational and interesting speakers to the Tallahassee community. This year, the […]

FSU professor receives prestigious award for interior design

Published: March 14, 2019 | 4:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Lisa Waxman, chair of the Department of Interior Architecture and Design

A longtime Florida State University professor has received the Interior Design Educators Council’s most prestigious award. Lisa Waxman, chair of the Department of Interior Architecture and Design at FSU, is this year’s recipient of the Arnold P. Friedmann Educator of Distinction Award. She is only the eighth person in the history of the organization to […]

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