Editing Greek Revival architecture (section)

===Germany and France===
[[File:2016 - Regensburg (28223191375).jpg|thumb|[[Leo von Klenze]]'s [[Walhalla (memorial)|Walhalla]] in [[Regensburg]], [[Bavaria]] (1842)]]
In Germany, Greek Revival architecture is predominantly found in two centres, Berlin and [[Munich]]. In both locales, Doric was the court style rather than a popular movement and was heavily patronised by [[Frederick William II of Prussia]] and [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] as the expression of their desires for their respective seats to become the capital of Germany. The earliest Greek building was the [[Brandenburg Gate]] (1788–91) by [[Carl Gotthard Langhans]], who modelled it loosely on the [[Propylaia (Acropolis of Athens)|Propylaea in Athens]]. Ten years after the death of [[Frederick the Great]], the {{lang|de|Berlin Akademie}} initiated a competition for a monument to the King that would promote "morality and patriotism."

[[Friedrich Gilly]]'s unexecuted design for a temple raised above the [[Leipziger Platz]] caught the tenor of high idealism that the Germans sought in Greek architecture and was enormously influential on [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]] and [[Leo von Klenze]]. Schinkel was in a position to stamp his mark on Berlin after the catastrophe of the French occupation ended in 1813; his work on what is now the [[Altes Museum]], [[Konzerthaus Berlin]], and the [[Neue Wache]] transformed that city. Similarly, in Munich von Klenze's [[Glyptothek]] and [[Walhalla memorial]] were the fulfilment of Gilly's vision of an orderly and moral German world.  The purity and seriousness of the style was intended as an assertion of [[German nationalism|German national values]] and partly intended as a deliberate riposte to France, where it never really caught on.

By comparison, Greek Revival architecture in France was never popular with either the state or the public. What little there is started with [[Charles de Wailly]]'s crypt in [[Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles de Paris]] (1773–80), and [[Claude Nicolas Ledoux]]'s Barriere des Bonshommes (1785–89). First-hand evidence of Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French, due to the influence of [[Marc-Antoine Laugier]]'s doctrines that sought to discern the principles of the Greeks instead of their mere practices. It would take until [[Henri Labrouste]]'s [[Neo-Grec]] of the [[Second French Empire|Second Empire]] for Greek Revival architecture to flower briefly in France.