Name: Rachael Cowan Hometown: Miami, FL Degree/Major: Interior Architecture Where did you intern? What did you do there? I’m currently an intern at Tomas Tillberg Design, a cruise ship design firm. I help keep the materials library organized, assist with making specification books, and sometimes draft initial models on design software, Revit. How [...]
Cruise Ship Interiors Expo, a first-of-a-kind conference focusing exclusively on interior design and refitting of cruise ships was launched at Miami Beach Convention Center on June 19th welcoming more than 2,800 attendees. FIU Department of Interior Architecture was invited to participate and network with cruise lines, design firms, and global leading suppliers of [...]
Recent alumni from the Department of Interior Architecture, Brennan Broome and Raquel Raney, were selected as the 2018-2019 recipients of the NEWH Green Voice Design Competition. This annual competition is hosted by premier hospitality network, NEWH Inc., and provides students with the opportunity to showcase their design skills while utilizing the very best [...]
Through FIU by Design initiative of the School of Architecture, The Department of Interior Architecture collaborated with Red Bull and American Social Bar and Kitchen to create hospitality solutions which came to fruition on Friday, April 19th, at the American Social Bar in Brickell. The RedBull Team was led by Quinn Ross, Director of the Southeast Region [...]
FIU Department of Interior Architecture organized it’s Master’s Project Reviews and celebration on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Building (PCA) at the BEA Gallery. To date, it is one of our largest student cohorts to graduate–27 students! Under the instruction of Prof. Katie Rothfield and Newton D’souza, student [...]
On Saturday, March 30th the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) South Florida Chapter hosted its 19th annual Design Mix event. Students and faculty members from FIU’s Department of Interior Architecture embraced their inner circus character and participated in “Peculiarium: Design’s Greatest Show!”. This year’s theme flashed back to the vintage circus era dating back to the 1700’s and featured [...]
The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) held its annual conference last week on March 6th through March 9th in Sacramento, California. Professor Ebru Özer from the Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design (LAEUD) was invited to present her research on climate resiliency and infrastructure solutions during the conference. [...]
FIU’s Department of Interior Architecture, in partnership with the IIDA & NEWH South Florida Chapters, hosted the 2nd annual Emerge event, on February 2, 2019. Approximately 170 students, alumni, speakers, sponsors, and industry manufacturers attended the event. Emerge, formerly known as Student Day, is an all-day event that brings together students, design professionals, [...]
Two master’s candidates, Brianna Hunter and Cassandra Charles, were chosen to represent Florida International University and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) South Florida Chapter for an all-expense paid trip to attend IIDA Texas Oklahoma’s SHIFT Student Conference. The three-day conference was held in Dallas, Texas from February 27th through March 1st and [...]
With resumes and portfolios in hand, over 130 FIU School of Architecture (SOA) graduate students attended on the 2019 Career Fair on Tuesday, February 19th. A total of 30 different employers were on hand to discuss full-time, part-time and internship positions with prospective employees. The annual SOA Career Fair serves as a unique [...]
