He studied architecture at the University of Bath and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was taught by Michael Brawne, Patrick Hodgkinson, Peter Smithson, Ted Happold and Dalibor Vesely.
Hart then moved to Cambridge to teach in Wilson's unit and study for a doctorate on Inigo Jones under Joseph Rykwert.
[5] This consisted of architectural prints, manuscripts and over 140 rare books and incunabula, and was held in the Adeane Gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
[8] His computer 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,[9] and in the ‘Nelson and Napoleon’ exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum, London, in July 2005.
[10] Vaughan Hart has lectured in many schools of architecture throughout the world, and his graduate students hold academic and museum posts in Australia, Sweden and the UK.