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 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
*Palais de Justice in Rennes (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 (1635-1638)
*Val-de-Grâce (plans) – for Anne d’Autriche (Anne of Austria)
*Château de Maisons (1642-1646)
*Hôtel Guénégaud (1648-51)
*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 (1671-76)

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)

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)

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)
*Theater Marigny
*Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)

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) (1904-6)
*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 (1904-6)
*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) (1901-6)
*Maisons Huot, Nancy (1903)
*France-Lanord Apartment Building, Nancy (1902-3)
*Lombard Apartment Building, Nancy (1902-4)
*Renauld Bank, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908-10)
*Ducret Apartment Building, Nancy (with Paul Charbonnier) (1908-10)

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)

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

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

Post World War II

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

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

ee also

*List of architects
*French Baroque architecture