Continuing and Professional Education
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 332.239.2292
cpe.advisor@newschool.edu
This certificate program gives you the industry knowledge and resources you need to enter the field of hospitality interior design. You develop a professional-level portfolio that includes plans for a restaurant, a bar, a hotel public space, and a guest room.
You also learn how to develop research-based hospitality concepts and dynamic storytelling presentations. You discover the importance of connecting people with place and find out how an understanding of psychology and emotional impact are used to create memorable hospitality guest experiences. With each project, you expand your design skills in space planning, sketching, 2D and 3D drawings, and furniture, fixtures, and equipment. You explore topics including health and wellness, sustainable design, remote work, and how these movements and phenomena affect the hospitality industry. You benefit from virtual field trips and exclusive interviews with industry experts.
Prerequisites: Drafting skills (Basic Drafting, AutoCAD, or the equivalent) and perspective drawing (Drawing Interiors: Perspective, SketchUp, or the equivalent)
Students typically complete this certificate in four months.
Introduction to Hospitality Interior Design must be taken first.
This course is an introduction to the field of hospitality interior design, covering topics including vocabulary, career possibilities, and professional resources.
In this course, students build upon their knowledge of hospitality design by creating plans for a hotel lobby. Topics explored include hotel interior design and branding, guest demographics, wellness, and sustainability.
Students learn how to plan space and design for diverse guest room types. They become familiar with standards for hotel guest room space planning, materials, furnishings, and lighting.
Hospitality interior design is a niche industry that is hard to break into without experience, knowledge, or a portfolio. The Hospitality Interior Design Certificate was created to give students exactly that. This one-of-a-kind program offers students worldwide the skills to design their own hospitality projects and graduate with a professional-level portfolio.
The professional landscape as we’ve known it has changed dramatically, and ongoing learning is more important now than ever before. At The New School, we champion every student’s creativity and growth. By combining integrated disciplines with collaborative problem solving, we deliver an immersive, transformative learning experience. With the leadership of Parsons School of Design—a globally top-ranked design school—our faculty imparts the critical expertise students need to advance their careers or pivot to a new one in a constantly evolving world.
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