List of French architects

This entry concerns French Architects.

Chronological list of French Architects

Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.

Middle Ages

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

Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

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)

• Château d’Anet (c.1550) – for Diane de Poitiers
• Tuileries Palace (1564-1567)

Pierre Lescot (1515-1578)

• Hôtel Carnavalet (c.1545)
• Louvre (1546) – for François I and Henri II
• Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon

Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545-1590)

• Pont Neuf (1599) – for Henri IV

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

• Galerie du Louvre
• Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Salomon de Brosse (1575-1626)

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

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585-1649)

• Hôtel de Sully (1624-1629)

Jacques Lemercier (1585-1654) – active for Richelieu

• Palais Royal (1632) – for Richelieu
• The city of Richelieu (from 1631)
• La Sorbonne church (1635) – for Richelieu
• Pavillon de l’Horloge (Louvre)
• St. Roch church
• Val-de-Grâce church (1667) – responsible for the construction

François Mansart (1598-1666)

• Château de Blois (1635-8)
• Val-de-Grâce (plans) – for Anne d’Autriche
• Château of Maisons (1642-1646)
• Hôtel Génégaud (1648-51)
• Hôtel Carnavalet (1655) - remodel
• Hôtel d’Aumont - remodel after Le Vau

Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) – responsible for the amazing Vaux-le-Vicomte and the reconstruction of Versailles as a place of fêtes.

• Apollo wing of the Louvre
• Hôtel Lambert (1640)
• Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656) – for Nicolas Fouquet
• Hôtel de Lauzun (1657)
• Château de Vincennes (1659) – for Mazarin
• Palace of Versailles – initial renovation
• St. Louis-en-l’île church (1664) - plans
• Institut de France – for Mazarin

Claude Perrault (1613-1688) – responsible for establishing French classicism

• Colonnade of the Louvre (1667-1673)
• Observatoire of Paris – plans
• Les Invalides church

Jules Hardouin Mansart (Jules Hardouin called) (1646-1708) – responsible for the massive expansion of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.

• Palace of Versailles (from 1678)
• Palace of Saint Cloud – for the Duc d’Orléans
• Château of Marly

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

• Palace of Versailles (1735-1777)
  • Appartment of the king
  • Opéra
  • Library
  • Petit Trianon (1762-1764)
• Place Louis XV

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-1780)

• The Panthéon

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799)

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

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

Revolution to World War II

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

• St. Geneviève Library (1843-1861)
• National Library

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

• Les Halles centrales (1854-1870) – destroyed in the 1960s.
• St. Eustache (church) – remodel
• St. Etienne du Mont (church) – remodel
• St, Augustin (church) (1860-1871)

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

• Château de Pierrefonds – restauration
• Notre Dame de Paris – restauration
• the city of Carcassonne – restauration
• St. Germain-des-prés (church) – restauration
• St Séverin (church) – restauration

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

• Paris Opera (1862-1875)
• Theater Marigny
• Casino of Monte-Carlo (1878)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Post World War II

Jean Nouvel (1945-)

Christian de Portzamparc