Background

Vaughan Hart was born on October 23, 1960, in Ireland, to Ronald and Mary Hart. He spent part of his childhood in Hong Kong.

Education

Hart studied architecture at Bath and Cambridge Universities (Trinity Hall), where he was taught by Michael Brawne, Patrick Hodgkinson, Peter Smithson, and Dalibor Vesely. he also studied for a doctorate in Cambridge under Joseph Rykwert.

Career

Vaughan Hart is a leading architectural historian and professor of architecture in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.

Vaughan has held visiting posts as a Senior Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2005, and as a Visiting Scholar at St John's College, Oxford in the same year. In 2009 he was an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

He is currently a visiting Professor at Kent University and is a Member of the advisory board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, an independent research institute within the University of Helsinki, Finland, 2012-2020.

In 1997 Vaughan was the curator of an exhibition entitled 'Paper Palaces: Architectural books from 1472 to 1800 in the collection of Cambridge University Library'. This was comprised of architectural prints, manuscripts, and over 140 rare books and incunabula, and was held in the Adeane Gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

In 2008 he co-organised (with Peter Hicks and Alan Day) the exhibition 'Palladio's Rome' held at the British School at Rome, and in 2009 he co-organised (again with Hicks and Day) an exhibition of research held at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers at the Sorbonne, Paris.

He is the co-translator (with Peter Hicks) of the treatises of Sebastiano Serlio, and he has also translated the two guidebooks to Rome published by Andrea Palladio and will publish (again with Peter Hicks) in 2016 a translation of Sansovino's guide to Venice.

His monographs include influential studies of the work of architects such as Inigo Jones and Sir John Vanbrugh and, in 2005, Vaughan was awarded the Best Book on British Art Prize of the American College Art Association for his study of Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Achievements

• Vaughan has pioneered the use of the computer to visualize lost buildings and investigate historic forms. His work has been displayed in the 1993 and 1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, in the National Theatre Museum at Covent Garden, the George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and in the ‘Nelson and Napoleon’ exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London, in 2005.

Works

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  • Palladio's Rome

    (Available for the first time in English, Palladio’s popul...)

    2009
  • Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume 2

    (This volume, the second in a two-volume series of Serlio'...)

    2001
  • Sir John Vanbrugh

    (This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at t...)

    2008
  • Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders

    (The diverse works of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (?1661–...)

    2008
  • Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume 1

    (Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important arch...)

    1996
  • Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts

    (Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the ...)

    1994
  • Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings

    (Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have be...)

    2011
  • St Paul's Cathedral

    (St Paul's Cathedral is one of the most magnificent buildi...)

    1995

Interests

• Chinese ceramics

Connections

Hart is married to a woman named Charlotte since October 23, 1999.

Father:

Ronald Hart

Mother:

Mary Hart

Spouse:

Charlotte Hart

colleague:

Peter Hicks

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 189
  2001