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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.
What links the ground beneath our feet to our cultural heritage? How do local building variations emerge and develop? Why is traditional building practice still important? Join this course to explore the material culture of historic buildings in Britain.
An introduction to classical design in architecture, its ancient origins, its impact on Oxford architecture and modern examples. To include demonstrations by well-known modern practitioners and the chance for students to create their own designs.
The English house will be studied in all its forms, from the barons castle to the humble cottage and high-rise flats of today.
The country house has been described as England's most distinctive contribution to European culture. This course will examine the growth of the country house phenomenon from the Middle Ages, up to the present day.
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.
This course aims to give participants an understanding of traditional construction and its defects, and to provide the skills to carry out balanced and informed surveys of historic buildings.
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.
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.
Join us in Oxford to explore the experience of visitors in gardens then, now and in the future through talks from leading experts in researching, caring for and providing access to historic gardens.
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.
