Explore Scandinavian modernism through domestic architecture, examining how Nordic designers like Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen shaped modern domestic life through light, comfort, materials, human scale, welfare ideals, and everyday routines.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2026 marks 300 years since the death of John Vanbrugh. His extraordinary career as soldier, playwright, and in heraldry was punctuated by a turn to architecture. We will examine his works, including Blenheim Palace and the role of Nicholas Hawksmoor.
This lecture explores Wilson’s electoral dominance, policy record, and leadership style, weighing social reform and economic challenges against his success as a campaigner and his decision to keep Britain out of the Vietnam War.
Join us in Oxford for this walking tour and examine the city's remarkable collection of grotesques and gargoyles. How has a medieval tradition found popularity in the present? What codes are hidden in the stones? Bring binoculars for close-up views!
Short course introducing potential witnesses and advocates to the techniques and procedures of public inquiries dealing with the historic environment, including preparing proofs of evidence. A mock inquiry will be staged.
Join legal and heritage experts for an intensive 1-day course. If you are responsible for the conservation or investigation of heritage assets, whether in the professional or voluntary sector, this course will help improve your knowledge of the law.