Online courses in architectural history
Short online courses in architectural history
Study from anywhere in the world with an online course.
Our short online courses in architectural history include live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools, and flexible online courses.
Credit earned from some of these courses is transferable towards our Certificate of Higher Education - a part-time undergraduate course in which you study a main subject discipline, but also undertake study in other academic subjects.
Browse below to find the online architectural history course for you.
Upcoming courses
Online - flexible • Short courses
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
- Wed 08 May 2024 – 19 Jul 2024
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course is designed to enable you to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.
- Wed 25 Sep 2024 – 06 Dec 2024
Online - live • Short courses
Approaches to managing old buildings change across time and between cultures. This course will give historical and global context to architectural conservation practice, and help students broaden their perspective on change in the historic environment.
- Tue 19 Sep 2023 – 28 Nov 2023
- 11 meetings
- 4:00 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
This course will help students reading ancient walls and buildings as an archaeologist would (with emphasis on classical and medieval vestiges), so to be able to assess their artistic, historic, and social relevance in the context in which they are sited.
- Wed 20 Sep 2023 – 29 Nov 2023
- 11 meetings
- 11:00am – 12:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Hoskins’ 'The Making of the English Landscape' appeared in 1955 and has been in print ever since. This day school is a tribute to one of the greatest historians of the 20th century and is presented by experts with close knowledge of the man and his work.
- Sat 28 Oct 2023
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
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Architectural history
Learn to ‘read’ architecture in a critically informed way, and to recognize and differentiate between major architectural styles.Postgraduate Certificate in Architectural History
This 11-month part-time course covers English architectural history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The course consists of three taught units and a dissertation.