List Of French Architects
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.
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-prs
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 LOrme) (1510/1515-1570)
Chteau dAnet
(c.1550) for
Diane de Poitiers
Tuileries
Palace (1564-1567)
Pierre Lescot
(1515-1578)
Htel Carnavalet
(c.1545)
Louvre
(1546) for
Franois 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)
Blrancourt
Palais de Justice in
Rennes
(1618)
Jean
Androuet du Cerceau
(1585-1649)
Htel 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 lHorloge
(Louvre)
St. Roch church
Val-de-Grce
church (1667) responsible for the construction
Franois Mansart
(1598-1666)
Chteau de
Blois
(1635-8)
Val-de-Grce
(plans) for Anne dAutriche (
Anne of Austria
)
Chteau de Maisons
(1642-1646)
Htel Gungaud
(1648-51)
Htel Carnavalet
(1655) - remodel
Htel dAumont
- remodel after
Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau
(1612-1670)
Apollo wing of the
Louvre
Htel Lambert (1640)
Vaux-le-Vicomte
(1656) for
Nicolas Fouquet
; this was to be the prototype of the
palace of Versailles
Htel de Lauzun (1657)
Chteau de Vincennes
(1659) for
Mazarin
Palace of Versailles
reconstruction, on the model of his Vaux-le-Vicomte, as a place of ftes
St. Louis-en-lle 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
Libral Bruant
(c.1636-1697)
Htel de la Salptrire
(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 Orlans
Chteau of
Marly
Domed chapel of
Les Invalides
Place des Victoires
Place Vendme
Chteau 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
Panthon
(called the Eglise Sainte Genevive) (1756-1780)
tienne-Louis Boulle
(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
Htel dHallwyl
(remodel)
Les Salines Royales
(
Arc-et-Senans
)
Revolution to World War II
Henri Labrouste
(1801-1875) famous for his use of steel
St. Genevive 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)
Eugne Emmanuel
Viollet-le-Duc
(1814-1879) important theoretician of the 19th century
Gothic revival
Chteau de Pierrefonds
restoration
Notre Dame de Paris
restoration
the city of
Carcassonne
restoration
Saint Germain-des-prs
(church) restoration
Saint Sverin
(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-Elyses
Robert Mallet-Stevens
(1886-1945) modernist architect influenced by
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
(Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) (1887-1965)
Eugne Beaudouin
(1898-1983) influential use of prefabricated elements
Jean Prouv
(1901-1984)
international style
/
Bauhaus
inspired
Post World War II
Christian de Portzamparc
(1944-)
La Villette
- City of Music
Caf Beaubourg
Jean Nouvel
(1945-)
Institut du Monde Arabe
Fondation Cartier
French architects
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