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
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 16 Sep 2025 – 25 Nov 2025
- 10 meetings
- 5:00 – 6:00pm
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 17 Sep 2025 – 28 Nov 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.
- Mon 22 Sep 2025 – 05 Dec 2025
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Delve into historic urban landscapes, mastering spatial analysis techniques in this 2-day course. Uncover layers of history and culture, enriching your professional skill set. Learn how the layout of cities helps to shape movement, interaction and trade.
- Tue 23 Sep 2025 – 24 Sep 2025
- 2 meetings
- 1pm Tues - 5pm Wed
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 24 Sep 2025 – 05 Dec 2025
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 24 Sep 2025 – 05 Dec 2025
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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.