The Difference Between Interior Architecture, Interior Decoration, And Architecture

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When I was taking my drafting and perspective class in summer, my professor has taught us that there are actually difference between interior architecture, interior design, interior decoration, and architecture, which is like a rag around architecture. I didn’t know there are such difference between those interior and architecture fields, and sometimes it is a lines blurring on this discussing topic, to define the role and responsivities of each profession.
Although we have already known that interior design involved with architecture and technical aspects of interior design, and less involved with decorative, soft furnishings side.
As a result, what is interior architecture? That was my question since then, so I started to did some research
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Therefore, my drafting and perspective professor helped me on giving an idea of perspective of Interior Architecture. Turning on television always make me exciting, literally I’m not exciting for TV series, dramas, but for those oversea architecture and interior documentaries from Europe. my father also supports me to providing different resources anything that possibly about interior design and architecture, when the time I selected this major, my father always spent his time of finding different TV show and searching interesting website that related to interior design, so I really inspired by a lot of Japanese style design, which inspired me of the simplistic, natural essence found in minimalist architecture and design. Line, form, space, light and material are but a few of the essential elements central to this widely popular design aesthetic. One of my community college professor, he had introduced me of the Japanese architects of Zen concept through the use of …show more content…
but I set myself a lot of goals, I’m the chief designer in a Chinese Students Association, if someday I won’t able to get a job for what I love, I can still be a graphic designer, or else, I can be an amateur on photography in the future, and I created a video productions team with my best friends. Recently, we are collaborating with FADS (Fashion and Design Society) to make to promotion video for their campaign. Fashion and Design Society is team that organizes and produces the annual fashions shows at UC Davis Picnic Day and in San Francisco. All the clothing designs included in the show are UC Davis design student work. Therefore, I tried I take a step out of my comfort zone, try more different things to gain more experience. I also believed that lives are about impulse and persistent. And I met great people around the campus who are might have same hobbies with me, even we don’t have same hobbies, I learned more how to communicate with other people, and learn other skill from those great people. In the process of taking the first trailer of Fashion and Design Society promotion video, my friends taught me how to do video editing, it was great experiences, because we share our thoughts and integrated them

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