Editing Regency architecture (section)

==Leading architects==

[[Image:Clarence house.jpg|right|thumb|John Nash's [[Clarence House]].]]
[[John Nash (architect)|John Nash]] was the architect most associated with the Regency style; he was fully in tune with the commercial requirements of developers and designed the Regency terraces of [[Regent's Park]] and [[Regent Street]] in [[London]].  He had many pupils who disseminated his style, or in the case of [[Pugin]] rebelled against it. In London itself there are many streets in the style in the areas around [[Victoria, London|Victoria]], [[Pimlico]], [[Mayfair]] and other central districts.<ref>Summerson, 162–180; Strong, 502</ref>  [[John Soane]] was more individualistic, one of a number of European experimenters in [[Neoclassicism]], but details from his inventive buildings were often picked up by other architects.<ref>Summerson, 95–97</ref>

The public buildings of [[George Dance the Younger]], City Architect of London from 1768, were precursors of the Regency style, though he designed little himself after 1798. [[Robert Smirke (architect)|Robert Smirke]] could produce both classical ([[British Museum]]) and Gothic designs, and also mainly worked on public buildings.  With Nash and Soane he was one of the [[Metropolitan Board of Works|Board of Works]]' architects during the peak Regency period.  A large commission of the period was the expansion of [[Windsor Castle]] for the king, which eventually cost over a million pounds, over three times the original budget.  Smirke, Nash, Soane and [[Jeffry Wyatville]] were invited to tender, Wyatville winning the competition.  He was a prolific designer, mostly for country houses, new-built or refurbished, able to work in a variety of styles.  His uncle [[James Wyatt]] was a leading architect of the previous generation, and James' sons [[Benjamin Dean Wyatt]] and [[Philip Wyatt]] were also successful architects in the period.