Field Trips
The interior design program boasts one of the most active and extensive field trip series of any design program in the country. In addition to local trips, numerous out-of-state field trips are offered each semester to various regional and national design centers.
During 2005-2006 field trips students toured:
Historic and groundbreaking new interiors and buildings by such architects
and designers as:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Krueck & Sexton,
Eeliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier, Helmut Jahn, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Marshall & Fox, Peter Eisenman, HOK, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Gensler, I.M. Pei,
Gwathmey Siegel, Holarbird + Roche, Louis Sullivan, Josef Kleihues, De Stefano +
Partners, Tigerman McCurry, & Phillip Johnson
Museums and galleries including:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati,
the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, the Eugene V. Debs Museum, & the St. Louis Art Museum
Prominent architecture and interior design firms including:
Perkins & Will, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Hellmuth Obata Kassenbaum, DeStefano+
Partners, VOA Associates, Anders Nereim, & Ratio Architects
Trade showrooms including:
Knoll International, Herman Miller, Steelcase, Holly Hunt, Baker Knapp and Tubbs, & many others at the
Merchandise Mart in Chicago