.
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,
Pimlico,
Mayfair and other central districts.
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. 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 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
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. ==Locations==