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List of French architects

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List of French architects

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

Contents

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

    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)
  • 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)
  • Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu

  • Palais-Cardinal (1632) – for 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 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) – 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)
  • 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)
  • Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

  • Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region
  • Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

  • Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

    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
  • Jean Nouvel (born 1945)

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

    List of French architects Wikipedia


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