Editing Edwardian era (section)

===Architecture===
{{See also|Edwardian architecture}}
Notable architects included [[Edwin Lutyens]], [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], and [[Giles Gilbert Scott]]. In spite of the popularity of [[Art Nouveau]] in Europe, the [[Edwardian Baroque architecture|Edwardian Baroque]] style of architecture was widely favoured for public structures and was a revival of [[Christopher Wren]]–inspired designs of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The change or reversal in taste from the Victorian eclectic styles corresponded with the historical revivals of the period, most prominently earlier [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] styles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.<ref>A.S. Gray, ''Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary'' (1985).</ref>

[[White City Stadium]], used for the [[1908 Summer Olympics]], was the first Olympic Stadium in the UK. Built on the site of the [[Franco-British Exhibition]], it had a seating capacity of 68,000 and was opened by King Edward&nbsp;VII on 27 April 1908. It was the largest structure of its type in the world at the time, and was designed to be awe-inspiring and thereby enhance the love of large-scale spectacle that characterised Edwardian London.<ref>David Littlefield, "White City: The Art of Erasure and Forgetting the Olympic Games." ''Architectural Design'' 82#1 (2012): 70–77.</ref>