List of French architects

The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.

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Middle Ages

Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century)

• Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden

Jean de Chelles (13th century)

• Notre Dame de Paris

Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266)

• Notre Dame de Paris
• the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
• Saint Denis Basilica

Matthias of Arras (?–1352)

• Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague

Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)

• Lucera castle

Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)

• Castel Nuovo

Renaissance to Revolution

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510 – c. 1585)

• Important book of architectural engravings

Philibert Delorme (or De L'Orme) (1510/1515–1570)

• Chateau d'Anet (c. 1550) – for Diane de Poitiers
• Tuileries Palace (1564–1567)

Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)

• Louvre Palace (Lescot Wing, 1546) – for Francis I and Henry II
• Hôtel Carnavalet (attributed, begun 1547)
• Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon

Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545–1590)

• Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henry IV

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (c. 1550–1614)

• Grande Galerie du Louvre
• Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Luxembourg Palace by de Brosse

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

• Luxembourg Palace (1615) – for Marie de' Medici
• St. Gervais church (facade) (1616)
• Château de Blérancourt
• Palais de Justice in Rennes (1618)

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)

• Hôtel de Sully (1624–1629)

Lemercier's Pavillon de l'Horloge at the Louvre

Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu

• Palais-Cardinal (1632) – for Richelieu
• Château de Richelieu
• City of Richelieu (from 1631)
• La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu
• Pavillon de l'Horloge (Louvre)
• St. Roch church
• Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1646–1653, further construction)

François Mansart (1598–1666)

• Château de Blois (1635–1638)
• Abbaye du Val-de-Grâce (1643–1646, plans and initial construction) – for Anne d'Autriche (Anne of Austria)
• Château de Maisons (1642–1646)
• Hôtel de Guénégaud (1648–1651)
• Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) – remodel
• Hôtel d'Aumont – remodel after Louis Le Vau

Louis Le Vau (1612–1670)

• Apollo wing of the Louvre
• Hôtel Lambert (1640)
• Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656) – for Nicolas Fouquet; this was to be the prototype of the Palace of Versailles
• Hôtel de Lauzun (1657)
• Château de Vincennes (1659) – for Mazarin
• Palace of Versailles – reconstruction, on the model of his Vaux-le-Vicomte, as a place of fêtes
• Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) – plans
• Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) – for Mazarin

Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish French classicism

Colonnade of the Louvre, designed by Perrault, among others

• Colonnade of the Louvre (1667–1673)
• Observatoire de Paris – plans

Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697)

• Hôtel de la Salpêtrière (1660–1677)
• Les Invalides (1671–1676)

Hardouin-Mansart's chapel at Les Invalides

Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin; he adopted the name Mansart in 1668) (1646–1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.

• Palace of Versailles (from 1678) – Royal Stables, Orangerie, Grand Trianon, Chapel
• Palace of Saint-Cloud – for the Philip I, Duke of Orléans
• Château of Marly
• Domed chapel of Les Invalides
• Place des Victoires
• Place Vendôme
• Château de Meudon

Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724)

• Château de Petit-Bourg

Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) – brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects

• Esplanade of Les Invalides
• Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

Germain Boffrand (1667–1754)

• Château Lunéville
• Remodelling of the Petit Luxembourg
• Interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise

Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745)

• Hôtel de Soubise
• Hôtel de Rohan

Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741)

• Stables of the Château de Chantilly
• Hôtel Biron
• Palais Bourbon

Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles

• Palace of Versailles (1735–1777) – apartment of the king, Versailles Opera, Library, Petit Trianon (1762–1764)
• Place de la Concorde (Place Louis XV)
• École Militaire (1751–1775)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780)

• The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780)

Palais-Royal entrance front by Moreau-Desproux

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

• Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)
• Second Salle du Palais-Royal, first purpose-built opera house in Paris

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

• Hôtel Alexandre

Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

• Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region

Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.

• Wall of the Farmers-General (1784–1791) – visible at the Place de la Nation and Denfert-Rochereau
• Hôtel d'Hallwyl (remodel)
• Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines Royales)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)

Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel

• Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1843–1861)
• National Library

Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass

• Les Halles centrales (1854–1870) – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall
• St. Eustache (church) – remodel
• Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (church) – remodel
• St. Augustin (church) (1860–1871)

Garnier's Paris Opera

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival

• Château de Pierrefonds – restoration
• Notre Dame de Paris – restoration
• the city of Carcassonne – restoration
• Saint-Germain-des-Prés (church) – restoration
• Saint Séverin (church) – restoration

Charles Garnier (1825–1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire

• Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862–1875)
• Théâtre Marigny
• Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)

Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer

• Église du Bon-Pasteur, Lyon (1875–1883)

Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist

• La Samaritaine, Paris (1903-1907)

Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848-1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments

Eugène Vallin (1856–1922) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

• Vallin House and Studio (with Georges Biet) (1896)
• Vaxelaire Department Store (with Emile André) (1901)
• Biet Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1902)
• Société Générale Bank/Aimé Apartment House (with Georges Biet) (1904–1906)
• École de Nancy Pavilion, Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France (1909)

Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy

• Magasins Réunis (department store), Nancy (1890–1907)
• Villa Majorelle, Nancy (with Henri Sauvage) (1898–1901)
• Imprimerie Royer (printing house), Nancy (1899–1900)
• Brenas Apartment House, Nancy (1902)
• Bergeret House, Nancy (1904)
• Weissenburger House, Nancy (1904–1906)
• Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel, Nancy (with Alexandre Mienville) (1911)
• Vaxelaire, Pignot, and Company Department Store, Nancy (1913)

Hector Guimard (1867–1942) – Art nouveau architect and designer

Émile André (1871–1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy

• Vaxelaire Department Store, Nancy (with Eugène Vallin) (1901)
• Parc de Saurupt, Nancy (garden-city), designer (with Henri Gutton) (1901–1906)
• Maisons Huot, Nancy (1903)
• France-Lanord Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1903)
• Lombard Apartment Building, Nancy (1902–1904)
• Renauld Bank, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910)
• Ducret Apartment Building, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908–1910)

Auguste Perret (1874–1954) and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete

• Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Paul Tournon (1881–1964)

Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945) – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887–1965)

Léon Azéma (1888–1978) – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928

• Douaumont ossuary (1932)

Eugène Beaudouin (1898–1983) – influential use of prefabricated elements

Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) – international style/Bauhaus-inspired

François Spoerry (1912–1999)

• Grimaud, Var, France
• Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur, Mexico
• Port Liberté, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
• Bendinat, Majorca, Spain
• Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon

Post World War II

Montreal's Olympic Stadium by Roger Taillibert

Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944)

• La Villette – City of Music
• Café Beaubourg

Henry Bernard (1912–94)

• Palace of Europe

Jean-Marie Charpentier

• Shanghai Grand Theatre

Pascale Guédot (born 1960)

• Médiathèque at Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent)

Michel Mossessian

• Five Merchant Square in London, UK
• NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
• ExxonMobil Technology Centre in Shanghai, China

Detail from the facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel (born 1945)

• Institut du Monde Arabe
• Fondation Cartier
• Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain
• Musée du quai Branly

Residence Salmson Le Point du Jour, lower income residential building, Boulogne Billancourt, France by Fernand Pouillon, 1958-1963

Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)

• Old Port of Marseille
• Tabriz railway station
• Résidence Salmson Le Point du Jour
• Chateau de Belcastel

Roger Taillibert

• Parc des Princes in Paris
• Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Olympic Velodrome, Montreal (now called the Montreal Biodome)
• Olympic Pool (Montreal)

Michel Pinseau

• Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco

Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois

• Eurotunnel in Calais
• ISIPCA in Versailles
• Centre de la petite enfance in Issy-les-Moulineaux
• Lycée Louis-Armand in Eaubonne
• Police station in Provins

Florent Nédélec, DPLG

• The Jervois Hong Kong
• Yong He Yuan Taiwan

See also

• French Baroque architecture
• List of architects
• List of French people