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 online courses with live-time sessions, flexible online courses, and day and weekend schools.
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 - live • Short courses
Investigate the emergence of architecture, from the earliest towns of the Neolithic to the Roman Empire. Explore urban form, construction materials and techniques, and discover how these how ancient building cultures influenced each other.
- Tue 14 Apr 2026 – 23 Jun 2026
- 10 meetings
- 3:00 – 4:00pm
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 06 May 2026 – 17 Jul 2026
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
- Wed 06 May 2026 – 17 Jul 2026
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.
- Mon 11 May 2026 – 24 Jul 2026
Online - flexible • Short courses
Explore the culture of the English country house from its architectural form, social manners and distinctions to the furnishings and artistic manifestations of taste, as an expression of power and influence in a changing society.
- Mon 18 May 2026 – 31 Jul 2026
Online - flexible • Short courses
Beginning with the vital structural innovations of the late Victorian era, this online course traces the rise and spread of modernism in European and American architecture, and concludes by examining contemporary architecture and future possibilities.
- Mon 18 May 2026 – 31 Jul 2026
Also available:
Architectural history
Short courses in architectural history at Oxford University.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.