Course detail
Design Manual
FA-DEM-KEAcad. year: 2025/2026
The course provides students with the understanding of the relationship between the building and the inner space, from the concept to the realisation detail. Students will learn to compose a simple design manual including the budget and specification of individual items. They will familiarize themselves with the specifics of design of atypic elements from wood, metal, laminate, stone etc. They will learn the criteria of selection of surface finishes, greenery, and accessories with regard to the appearance, operation characteristics, and price.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the technical courses.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
During seminars students must consult the assigned task.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.
Aims
– Students will understand the inseparability of exterior and interior.
– Students will familiarize themselves with the principles of interior designing and realisation.
– Students will learn how to work with space, light and colour.
– Students will know how to work with materials, surfaces, furniture, and plants in the interior.
– Students will learn to cooperate with a graphic designer and designer.
– Students will acquire the skill of coordinating interior works, selection of contractors, and budgeting.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
HESKETT, John. Design, History, Economics. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016. ISBN: 978-1474221252. (EN)
LLOYD-JONES, Peter. Taste Today: The Role of Appreciation in Consumerism and Design. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1991. ISBN: 978-0080402512. (EN)
MICHL, Jan. Form Follows WHAT? The Modernist Notion of Function as a Carte Blanche. In: 1: 50 – Magazine of the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning. Haifa: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. 2005, 10, 31–20. URL: https://janmichl.com/eng.fff-hai.html (EN)
MÜLLER, Jens; REMINGTON, R. Roger. Logo Modernism. Taschen, 2015. ISBN: 978-3836545303. (EN)
SABIN, Jenny E.; JONES, Peter Lloyd. LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology. Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1138783973. (EN)
VIHMA, Susann, ed. Semantic Visions in Design : Proceedings from the Symposium on Design Research and Semantics, 17.-18.5.1989. UIAH, 1990. ISBN: 978-9519384290. (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NE_A+U Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization --- (2023) , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization --- (do 2022) , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization --- (do 2022) , 4 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme BE_A+U Bachelor's 4 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme BX_A+U Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective