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15 Online Professional Courses of Architecture for FREE
27/04/2020
By BAM Team
The COVID-19 global situation has made our 2020 a little different as we expected to be. Nowadays, many of us are at home looking for new activities to do during our available time, or the called “new normal”. Some people are working in the home-office modality, others are doing extensive routines of exercise, and others are standing out in the kitchen with new and succulent dishes.
If you prefer to take advantage of this extra-time to study a new professional architecture course in some of the most prestigious universities in the world, this article is definitely for you. Because, you know, it is never too late to include you have taken a course from MIT, TU Delft or ETH in your CV that. And the best thing is: all of them FOR FREE.
In the digital era, technology allows us to access a world of endless educational opportunities that we should take into consideration if we want to improve our skills of architecture and become the dreamed architects in the near future.
The following is a list of 15 online courses presented by some of the best universities in the world. You can enroll each of them at no cost and start right after reading this article. What are you waiting for?
History & Theory Online Courses
Price: FREE | Legth: 10 Weeks | Language: English
Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.
Price: FREE | Legth: 5 Weeks | Language: English
Learn about built environments in Asia and how we can better conserve and sustain vernacular architecture in the future.
Price: FREE | Legth: 5 Weeks | Language: English
Explore key elements of modern Japanese architecture and related history with a focus on its Westernization covering the period from 1868 to 1945.
Price: FREE | Legth: 16 Weeks | Language: Mandarin+English Subtitles
This course explores China’s rich and varied architectural history. (In Mandarin with English subtitles.)
Sustainability, Construction & Technology Online Courses
Price: FREE | Legth: 15 Weeks | Language: English
Learn and explore key scientific principles, technologies, and analysis techniques for designing comfortable indoor environments while reducing energy use and associated climate change effects.
Price: FREE | Legth: 6 Weeks | Language: English
Learn how the principles of the Circular Economy can be applied to the built environment ranging from products and buildings to metropolitan and regional development strategies.
Price: FREE | Legth: 8 Weeks | Language: English
Learn about bridge design and discover how structural engineering is a creative discipline and art form.
Price: FREE | Legth: 4 Weeks | Language: English
This course introduces the basic elements and trends that define sustainability practices in Architecture today. It follows an interdisciplinary approach that includes performance assessment and urban policies.
Urban Studies & City Planning Online Courses
Price: FREE | Legth: 10 Weeks | Language: English
Understand a city’s people, components, functions, scales and dynamics, as precondition for its sustainable design and management.
Price: FREE | Legth: 10 Weeks | Language: English
Learn how data and information impact the design, sustainability and resilence of future cities.
Price: FREE | Legth: 10 Weeks | Language: English
Housing and Cities is a design-oriented architecture course that focuses on key moments of European urban housing history. It looks into ordinary or replicated housing types of different social classes that contributed to the definition of urban identity across borders and time.
Price: FREE | Legth: 5 Weeks | Language: English
This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change
Architecture & Design Online Courses
Price: FREE | Legth: 4 Weeks | Language: English
Making architecture offers a unique insight into the mind and work of an Architect, starting with the basics of the profession and culminating with the production of a scaled site model.
Price: FREE | Legth: 4 Weeks | Language: English
This course will introduce a lexicon (or vocabulary) in order for you to demonstrate clearer and more considered ways of talking about graphic design in the context of critique.
Price: FREE | Legth: 3 Weeks | Language: English
This course will help you understand what spatial design professionals really do, so you can decide if this is the right profession for you.
