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
This course is designed to enable you to 'read' the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way.
- Mon 20 Jan 2025 – 04 Apr 2025
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course is the ideal introduction to English garden history. It provides an overview of five centuries of development, from baroque formalism through the naturalistic landscape style, right up to contemporary cutting-edge planting style.
- Wed 22 Jan 2025 – 04 Apr 2025
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course will explore the English medieval cathedral as a developing institution which survived over a thousand years of religious upheaval and historical change, focusing on the multifaceted architecture of a range of truly great churches.
- Wed 22 Jan 2025 – 04 Apr 2025
Online - live • Short courses
What links the ground beneath our feet to our cultural heritage? How do local building variations emerge and develop? Why is traditional building practice still important? Join this course to explore the material culture of historic buildings in Britain.
- Wed 22 Jan 2025 – 26 Mar 2025
- 10 meetings
- 4:00 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
Join us to explore the rich and dazzling architecture of the Italian Renaissance in three key cities. We will investigate the differing ways in which the classical styles of the Renaissance found expression in Florence, Rome and Venice.
- Thu 23 Jan 2025 – 27 Mar 2025
- 10 meetings
- 7:00 – 8:00pm
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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.