Established in 1980 by a group of professionals, ISAD has the purpose to give an alternative chance to who attends the University of Architecture and wish to study in the field of Interior Design.

After 20 years of experience, the school is involved in a constant evolution and changing process which allows it to bring up to date whether the address of the didactics or the teachers who are presently young professionals actively engaged either in the freelance profession or into the critical or editorial field.

A changing which in any case has not injured the original spirit of the school which goes on to be founded on the work groups, on the presence of the teachers, on the students' social life, on the interchangeable of the experiences and of the teachers as well.
The spirit of community, where a good competition does not exclude the collaboration and the mutual exchange.

interior design: biennium course

ISAD's biennium course is proposed as a formation for the profession of interior design. Revolved to high-school graduate students, the course having university characteristics, is divided in two years. To the didactic activity are integrated during the year guided visits to exhibitions, cultural activities, worksites and firms as well as historic buildings of interest to the topics being studied.

interior design: master

The course is dedicated to graduate students in Architecture and Design who intend to deepen their own qualification up to the level of details and in interior architecture. Each project is organized with the collaboration of a client (firm, public administration, private client) who feign a real professional condition with the presentation of a precise project program and a final verification of the workshop results.

interior design: one year course

The course is revolved to everyone who has a personal interest in interior design and wants to deepen its principal characteristics, its working field, its new trends, through a methodological approach of project development supported by drawing and composition techniques necessary to the final presentation of an interior design project layout.

garden design:

One year specialization course The course is articulated in studies and projects during which students are trained to design and organise spaces such as private parks and gardens as well as public parks and gardens, and green spaces to special destination uses such as: parking, golf fields, sports fields, hanging gardens and interior-scaping. The course will also train students to take part in the management and maintenance of a project, as well as the restoration of historical gardens.

UpToDate Materials – materials around design: master course

The course of one year explores the use and characteristics of all materials, from traditional ones to innovative ones, applied to all design fields: fashion, interior, furniture, yacht, product and architecture. The course also includes the participation of important firms of that field.

Restoration of Antique Furniture:

a real school lab workshop where students have their own personal work-bench and a complete set of tools to facilitate the learning process of the sensitive and difficult Art of Restoration, and this, under the experienced guidance of professors and experts.

ATELIERS

A series of short-term courses that complete ISAD’s didactics programs. The varied workshops themes respond to the requests and needs of the market place.

yacht design: the course affronts the interior design project of a yacht with its opened areas comparing it to the domestic interior design project. Within the seminar are included meetings with yacht designers, yacht constructors and editors of yacht books and magazines. The course begins with a visit to a working Shipyard.

lighting exhibition: the course is particularly referred to the lighting design project implant of exhibition spaces, commercial spaces, showrooms, malls, displays, stands, museums, temporary exhibitions and lighting for visual communication.

golf course design: The course’s target is to examine a project culture that’s not just exploited by studying manuals but also includes and makes explicit some key topics that are not usually taken into consideration on institutional field. So, even if also analyzing geology, sole movement architecture, system technologies and representation techniques, topics are also regarding the “project thought” with an overview on interpretation of territories and their transformation into golf course.

CAD design: Intensive courses of 3D Autocad and Rendering 3D Studio Viz.

Scenography – Set Design for Television: the project of scenography, thinking & conceptualizing the stage: confronting it with theatre, movies and other types of scenography stages. Studying the Production, the Authors and the Scenery Direction. The importance of the light and its fundamental relation with the Photography Director: spot-lights and the stage. Construction techniques: the structures of a stage, the materials…

Model Techniques: the course is dedicated to students, designers & architects and presents the varied methods of designing a model showing the difference between a study model and a final model of a project presentation.