Architecture and Interior Design Practical Engineering
Architect David Cohen Scaly
Program Director
Email: davidc@mail.sapir.ac.il
Our innovative government certified Architecture and Interior Design Practical Engineering Diploma anticipates the contemporary design environment and its future trends. We offer an exciting program for people who have an aesthetic sense, creative ability and the capacity to study art together with technology. Government certified graduates are legally qualified to design structures up to four stories ('simple structures' as defined by Israeli law) as well as design spaces for projects both large and small.
Our program offers the best lecturers in the field including well-known and experienced architects and engineers, who design private and public buildings as well as green and sustainable structures. In addition, our staff includes accessibility professionals and construction and safety legislation experts. They provide smart and technologically advanced construction practices with an emphasis on user friendly, up-to-date and artistic architecture. Our students are passionate about architectural and design innovation. We provide them with innovative labs and state of the art software such as AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup and more equipping them to create novel methods and designs.
Valued and in high-demand, our alumni work in planning, management and oversight roles, in many design and planning fields. Graduates work as self-employed freelancers, or in large firms, at private and public architecture and design offices, planning institutions and more.
Students who choose to study in an integrated program with the College can earn academic credits for their B.A degrees, subject to each academic departments' procedures. They complete the balance of their degree courses in their final year of study and after qualifying as a practical engineer.