List of French architects
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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) Pierre de Montreuil (c.1200-1266) Matthias of Arras (?-1352) Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plansRenaissance to Revolution
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510-c. 1585)- Important book of architectural engravings.
- Chateau d'Anet (c.1550) – for Diane de Poitiers
- Tuileries Palace (1564-1567)
- Hôtel Carnavalet (c.1545)
- Louvre (1546) – for François I and Henri II
- Fontaine des Innocents (1550) – carved by Jean Goujon
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Colonnade of the Louvre (1667-1673)
- Observatoire de Paris – plans
- 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
- Esplanade of Les Invalides
- 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)
- The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756-1780)
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
- 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
- Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera (now Opera Garnier) (1862-1875)
- Theater Marigny
- Casino of Monte Carlo (1878)
- 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)
- Ecole de Nancy Pavilion, Exposition Internationale de l'Est de France (1909)
- 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)
Emile André (1871-1933) – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the Ecole 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)
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
- Institut du Monde Arabe
- Fondation Cartier
- Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain
See also
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