Tutor information
Steven Parissien
Professor Steven Parissien is Director of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Visiting Professor of Architectural History and Visual Heritage at Coventry University, and Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He took his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford and has written extensively on architectural and cultural history: his twelve books to date include Regency Style (1992), George IV: The Grand Entertainment (2001) and The Comfort of the Past: Building Oxford 1815-2015 (2015).
Courses
Explore the trends and themes of architecture in the City and University of Oxford, from the Saxon era to the present day.
An exploration of Oxford University’s hidden college gardens, past and present. The college gardens current multifaceted role as a retreat and refuge, as a counterpart to the dense urban grain and as a source of college income will be evaluated.
This day school will examine the social role and architectural development of the High Street since its evolution in the 18th century to the development of the chain store in the late 19th century and the retreat of the High Street in the early 21st.