List of French architects
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This entry concerns French architects.
The following is a chronological list of French architects. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.
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Middle Ages
Jean de Chelles (13th century)
Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200-1266)
- Notre Dame de Paris
- the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-prés
- Saint-Denis
Matthias of Arras (?-1352)
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)
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 (1635-8)
- 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 Ile 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 Trainon, 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
Jacques Ange 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)
- Ecole 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.
- 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 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
- Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (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-Elysées
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 (1944-)
- La Villette - City of Music
- Café Beaubourg
Jean Nouvel (1945-)