Projects
Spatial Design Summer School at the Opinion Festival 2026
The Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture department is organising an international week-long summer workshop (3 ECTS) for students interested in interior architecture, architecture, design, crafts, fine arts ...
SISU 2026 TALGU TALK – Summer school and symposion
The Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture department is organising a week-long summer workshop (3 ECTS) for students of interior architecture, architecture, design, crafts, fine arts and the related subjects. EKA partner university ...
Restoring Edgar Velbri’s Chairs
When EKA moved into its new building, the Sukavabrik, in 2018, the Department of Interior Architecture had to leave behind its teaching building on Nunne Street, where we had been based for decades. They say that moving is worse than a fire. ...
Master’s studio “Creative Research” exhibition “ASITÖÖ” at EKA Library
ASITÖÖ Exhibition at EKA Library 11-18 December 2025 In 2027, it will be 100 years since the birth of Vello Asi (1927–2016), an important figure of Estonian interior architecture and a long-time lecturer at the Department ...
Interior architecture students and faculty among nominees for the Estonian 2025 Architecture Awards
On February 14, 2026, the winners of the Association of Architects, Interior Architects and Landscape Architects and the Cultural Endowment Awards will be announced. Along with many alumni, we would like to highlight our student and ...
Juminda Peninsula’s Virtuous Outdoor Toilet “Julla”
The Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture students built the outdoor toilet “Julla” at the camping area of the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) at the tip of the Juminda peninsula, which takes into account the virtues of ...
ERASMUS+ BIP: 2025 Spatial Design Summer School at the Opinion Festival
The Department of Interior Architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is organising a summer school this summer as part of the Opinion Festival, where students will build a stage for the festival. The ...
Interior Architecture students designed language cafés for the Tallinn, Tartu and Viru prisons
As of June 2025, there are a total of 898 prisoners with other mother tongues in Estonian prisons (56% of all prisoners). All of them will be released at some point and return to society, where knowledge of the ...
Master’s Studio Development Direction: GO+SIT SIT+GO
The Development direction of the 2024 spring semester master’s studio focused on sitting, at the decision of supervisor Jüri Kermik. The project focuses on the seat and the act of sitting by considering related aspects ...
Exhibition “Japanese Happiness. In search of the happiness of inner peace through aesthetic experiences” at ARS Project Space
Japanese Happiness. In search of the happiness of inner peace through aesthetic experiences ARS Project Space 7-23 March 2025 Opening ceremony (by ...
Master’s studio: Modernism begins at home. Converting* interiors of Pärnu KEK
The central studio of the first year of the master’s studies in the autumn semester of 2024 focused on the Pärnu KEK’s terraced house called the Golden Home. Instructor Pavle Stamenović introduced the course with the following ...
Japanese Happiness
From 2023-2026, the Department of Interior Architecture will work closely with the Exhibition Design Institute of the Peter Behrens School of Art (PBSA) in Düsseldorf and with Masayo Ave, a Japanese designer based in Berlin. The focus of the ...
Master’s Studio BEFORE / AFTER: Converting Typologies
Master Studio 2 2023/2024 for the 1st year MA Interior Architecture was supervised by Pavle Stamenovic. BEFORE / AFTER: Converting Typologies learning about the ...
Exhibition design studio: CURTAIN CREATURES
As part of ‘Experimental Form’, a joint course within the Estonian Academy of Arts’, Fashion, Accessory, and Textile Design programme, an exhibition of garment sculptures was created for the ninth year, with the spatial design process ...
Updating the Grand Tour – Erasmus+ research project
Our department is part of a 3-year-long Erasmus+ Cooperation partnership called the ‘UpGranT – Updating the Grand Tour. Memory and Invention of the European Built Environment’, ...
Drawing “In Watermelon Sugar”
The subject of the third-year bachelor’s degree autumn semester drawing course this time was Richard Brautigan’s short story “In Watermelon Sugar”. Wikipedia writes about the book: “In Watermelon ...
Master’s Studio: Urban Stocks
The first year of the MA study in the autumn semester of 2023 was based on the topic “Urban Deposit”. The course was held in collaboration with the EKA Faculty of Design curriculum Design and Applied Arts. Supervised by Juss ...
Joint Master’s Studio of the Department of Interior Architecture and Tallinn University”Inclusive Space”
Within the framework of the course “Inclusive Space for All”, a partner institution is involved every year, with which some small or large spatial issue will be jointly solved. In 2023, the department’s partner was Tallinn University and ...
BA Speciality Project Exhibition: KATARSIS
As a specialisation project for the second year of the BA in the spring semester of 2023, students will design an exhibition as a group. While in previous years students have planned and built a complete spatial solution for an exhibition ...
BA Studio “Educational Space”: VARES Architecture Residency
The 2023 spring semester BA second-year professional studio Haridusruum focused on (alternative) architectural education using the example of the newly established Valga architecture residency VARES (https://vares.space/en/). Supervised by ...
Master’s Studio: A Sense of Proportion
In the spring of 2023, the first-year specialist studio of the EKA Master’s degree in Interior Architecture will focus on ecological building materials. Under the guidance of supervisors Roland Reemaa, Laura Lins and Hannah Segerkrantz, ...