London House Course

April 1 – 7, 2025

The 7-day London House course, directed by David Adshead, studies the development of the London house from the Renaissance to the present.  It combines numerous visits to houses, many of them private, with a series of lectures by leading authorities.  Progressing broadly chronologically and exploring all over London, the course takes members inside grand aristocratic buildings, smaller domestic houses, artists’ studios, and the garden suburb. 

The course starts at the Victoria and Albert Museum and continues onto Charterhouse after covering houses in the medieval period.  The Restoration period and eighteenth centuries are explored in Bloomsbury and Spitalfields, before being followed by the aristocratic grandeur of great houses in St. Jame’s.  One of the days focuses on the artists’ houses and studios of Chelsea and Holland Park, with the following studying the garden suburb and considering twentieth-century domestic developments.  The course includes an in-depth study of Sir John Soane’s house and a look at the London house in the twenty-first century.  

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London House Course Information and Application

Applications Now Open

Deadline: January 17, 2025

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Scholarship Application Form

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Deadline: January 17, 2025

Image Credit: Holland House. Courtesy of private collection.