Vaughan Hart

Vaughan Hart is a leading architectural historian and Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at Bath University. He studied architecture at both Bath and Cambridge Universities, and has held posts as a Senior Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in 2005, and a Visiting Scholar at St John's College, Oxford in the same year.

His books include:

* "Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts" (Routledge 1994)

* "St Paul's Cathedral: Christopher Wren" (Phaidon, 1995)

* "Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture" (Yale University Press, 1996 and 2001)

* "Paper Palaces: the Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise" (Yale University Press, 1998)

* "Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders" (Yale University Press, 2002: awarded the Best Book on British Art Prize of the American College Art Association in 2005)

* "Palladio's Rome" (Yale University Press, 2006)

* "Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone" (Yale University Press, 2008)