Gothic architecture spread across Europe from the 1200s until the classical revival of the 1500s, but it became a major style with Victorian revivalists. This course will look at masterpieces of cathedrals, parish churches and secular architecture.
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Learn how classical architecture can speak to us today through the way it was composed and the meanings behind it. We will study how buildings in Oxford offer unique and varied examples through a field trip, and use this knowledge in new design ideas.
This course explores the rich visual culture of Victorian Oxford through the surviving buildings and extant collections of the City and University of Oxford, through seminars, site visits and walking tours.
Explore the evolution of English architecture and the historic environment while building practical skills in architectural analysis. This part‑time certificate combines taught study, fieldwork and an independent dissertation.
Explore archaeology in Oxford on this flexible part-time course, designed for adults new to archaeology. Learn key ideas, approaches, sites and methods through seminars, workshops and field trips, gaining hands-on experience of ancient artefacts and historic landscapes.
Turn your advanced knowledge of architectural history into original research with Oxford University. This fascinating discipline has been taught and developed at Oxford Lifelong Learning for many years, enabling mature students to become directly involved in individual research. Topics may typically include built and designed landscape, and aspects of interior design. The course profits from… Continue reading DPhil in Architectural History
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.
Managing nature around historic buildings can be a challenge. But it also presents exciting opportunities for engagement and conservation. This course will introduce new research, policy trends and case studies for nature positive activity.
Increase your understanding of setting as it applies to heritage assets, along with its contribution to good design and the positive management of heritage assets. Aimed at UK-based historic environment practitioners and others in related disciplines.
Elevate your professional skills with our one-day course. Unlock the potential of recent advances in lidar technology to better understand how you can apply it in your job. Learn how to use and present lidar data for different purposes.
Join our experts to understand the role of colonialism in shaping contemporary cities. Critically examine how colonial logics in urban development can reinforce spatial inequalities, dispossession and exclusion, and how we can ‘counterplot’ against them.
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.