Tutor information
Keith Hasted
Keith's initial research focus was Italian Renaissance palace architecture, and he has since developed a special interest in the architecture of cathedrals, not only in England but also in mainland Europe. He has taught courses over a number of years in the OUDCE weekly programme and Summer School and for the WEA.
Courses
Architect Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre exploited the possibilities of raw concrete – it bears the surface pattern of the rough wooden shuttering into which the concrete was poured. Join us to explore the buildings which unwrap Brutalism in Britain.
Flowering after 1300 with the ogee arch and glorious flowing window tracery, the Decorated style not only operated as a distinct form unique to medieval England, but was later regarded by Pugin as his favoured style for the Gothic revival of the 1800s.
From the earliest dedicated spaces for Christian worship - Old St Peter’s being one - Italy has dominated the development of the architectural design of the church. This has been a journey through Romanesque and Gothic to the Renaissance and Baroque.
2025 marks 400 years since Charles I took the throne. His Surveyor of the King’s Works, Inigo Jones, toured Italy extensively and brought the Renaissance to English architecture. We will explore the emergence of Renaissance building in Italy and England.