List of French architects
This entry concerns French Architects.
Chronological list of French Architects
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
Etienne-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-)