Waterhouse, Percy Leslie: The story of architecture throughout the ages: an introduction to the study of the oldest of the arts for students and general readers (London: B. T. Batsford, 1924)

IX
MODERN ARCHITECTURE

In comparison with the enormous strides which
were made during the nineteenth century in
all branches of science, the progress of archi-
tecture in that period was slow and lacking in
interest. Throughout the continent of Europe
comparatively few notable buildings were pro-
duced. In France, as we have noted, the
Louvre was completed, and the Opera House
was built in Paris (1863-1875). Austria pro-
duced, among several fine public halls and
theatres, the great Opera House, and the
House of Parliament (1843) in Vienna, and the
Dresden Theatre, all designed more or less on
classical lines. German architecture in the
early part of the century received an impetus
under Schinkel (d. 1841), who designed the
Museum at Berlin, with its great portico of
Ionic columns, and the Court Theatre, also in
Berlin, in which the Greek forms are admirably
adapted to the requirements. Other well-known
buildings are the Propylaea at Munich, and the
Walhalla at Ratisbon—a copy of the Parthenon,
by von Klenze (1784-1864). “ In general,”
writes Hamlin, “ the Greek revival in Germany
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