List of French architects

The following is a 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 Basilica

Matthias of Arras (?-1352)

• Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague

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)

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

Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)

• Hôtel Carnavalet (c. 1545)
• Louvre (1546) – for Francis I and Henry II
• 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)

• Galerie du Louvre
• Pavillon de Flore (Tuileries)

Luxembourg Palace and Gardens

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

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

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)

• Hôtel de Sully (1624–1629)

The Palais Royal in Paris

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 (1635–1638)
• Val-de-Grâce (plans) – for Anne d’Autriche (Anne of Austria)
• Château de Maisons (1642–1646)
• Hôtel 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
• St. Louis-en-l'île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) - plans
• Institut de France – for Mazarin

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

• 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)

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

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

• Esplanade of Les Invalides

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)

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

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
• St. Etienne 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)

François Spoerry (1912–1999)

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

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

Post World War II

Montreal's Olympic Stadium by Roger Taillibert

Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944)

• La Villette - City of Music
• Café Beaubourg

Jean Nouvel (born 1945)

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

Jean-Marie Charpentier

• Shanghai Grand Theatre

Michel Mossessian

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

Roger Taillibert

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

Michel Pinseau

• Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco

Kaveh N. Salami

• International Islamic center
• palm islands
• Salar Kish Complex
• Nosa Kish Complex
• Tripoli International Airport
• Phase II Blue City Muscat Oman
• Colonial Project Key west Florida, U.S.A

Philippe Ameller & 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

• List of architects
• French Baroque architecture