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Schauspielhaus History The Schauspielhaus was part of a grandiose new scheme of town planning in Germany, Berlin in the year 1818. Design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a scene designer and romantic painter, the schauspielhaus was designed to be built as a theater. Although it was completed in 1821, the function of the building changed. During the French revolution it became the house of the Prussian national assembly for several years. After the first world war, its usage changed to a concert hall. During the second world war, the building was severely damaged by allied bombing to a point that it had to be rebuilt. It was in 1977 that is was finally reopened and in 1984 it reopened as a "Gala Concert Hall". [1] Architecture The building is design in a mix of Greek revival and Neoclassical architecture. You can tell its Neoclassical origins by its grandeur in scale, simplicity of forms, and use of the Greek order [4]. This are all evide...

The Theater de Odeon is located in 2 rue Corneille, which is close to the bank of the Seine. The theater has built in between 1779 to 1782, and had replaced three times. The Odeon is since September 1971 one of the six national theaters. It is an "Italian-style" theater, which is cubic-shaped stage and semicircular theater and the exterior is neoclassical. It is classified as historical monuments since 1947. In 1767, Marquis Marini, the Director of the Buildings Department of the King, asked Mary Joseph Pell and De Gaulle Wailly to be the new project of the French Theater. On March 26, 1770, the decision of the King of the Security Council ordered Prince Conde to implement the project on the grounds that he hoped to resolve the abandoned garden of the Bourbon Palace. Two other projects were developed: the king's menu Plaisirs, the architects of Denis-Claude and Jean Liegeon Damun, the one supported by Comédiens, France, and the architect of the city Paris, P...