Elected 1991
Director, Stanford University Programme in Oxford
Geoffrey Tyack was brought up in London and read History at St John’s College, Oxford. He subsequently did an MLitt in Architectural History, followed later, as a mature part-time PhD student, by a doctorate at the University of London. His main academic interests are in British and European architectural history, especially from the C18 to the C20 and the history of urban planning since the Renaissance. He also teaches Modern British History and the History of British Art. Other interests include music, and he is currently trying to establish a choir in Kellogg College.
His books include: Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian London (Cambridge University Press 1992); Warwickshire Country Houses (Phillimore 1994); Oxford: an Architectural Guide (Oxford University Press 1998); and Modern Architecture in an Oxford College: St John’s 1945–2005 (OUP 2005). He was co-editor of the revised volume on Berkshire in the Pevsner Buildings of England series (Yale University Press 2010), and is editor of John Nash: Architect of the Picturesque, to be published by English Heritage in 2012. He has also contributed articles to numerous academic journals, to the Grove Dictionary of Art, to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to several volumes of essays and papers, including John Ruskin and Architecture (Spire Books, 2003) and The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court (Manchester University Press, 2011).
Geoffrey Tyack is a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, co-organiser of the Oxford Architectural History Seminar, and Editor of the Georgian Group Journal. Apart from running the Stanford Programme in Oxford and teaching undergraduates, he teaches courses on urban and architectural history for the MSc in English Local History and is currently supervising two part-time D.Phil students from Kellogg College and two full-time students from other colleges.
E-mail: geoffrey.tyack@kellogg.ox.ac.uk