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

Étienne de Bonneuil (late 13th century)

Jean de Chelles (13th century)

Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266)

Matthias of Arras (?–1352)

Villard de Honnecourt (14th century) – architecture plans

Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)

Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)

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)

Pierre Lescot (1515–1578)

Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1545–1590)

Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau (c. 1550–1614)

Luxembourg Palace by de Brosse

Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626)

Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649)

Lemercier's Pavillon de l'Horloge at the Louvre

Jacques Lemercier (1585–1654) – active for Richelieu

François Mansart (1598–1666)

Louis Le Vau (1612–1670)

Claude Perrault (1613–1688) – helped to establish French classicism

Colonnade of the Louvre, designed by Perrault, among others

Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697)

Hardouin-Mansart's chapel at Les Invalides

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.

Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724)

Robert de Cotte (1656–1735) – brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects

Germain Boffrand (1667–1754)

Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745)

Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741)

Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782) – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780)

  • The Panthéon (called the Eglise Sainte Geneviève) (1756–1780)
Palais-Royal entrance front by Moreau-Desproux

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826)

Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel

Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass

Garnier's Paris Opera

Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival

Charles Garnier (1825–1898) – celebrated architect of the Second Empire

Clair Tisseur (1827–1896), Romanesque Revival architect and designer

Frantz Jourdain (1847–1935) – Art Nouveau architect and theorist

Auguste Louzier Sainte-Anne (1848-1925) – Chief architect of historic monuments

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

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

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

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

François Spoerry (1912–1999)

Post World War II

Montreal's Olympic Stadium by Roger Taillibert

Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944)

  • La Villette – City of Music
  • Café Beaubourg

Henry Bernard (1912–94)

Jean-Marie Charpentier

Pascale Guédot (born 1960)

Michel Mossessian

Detail from the facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel (born 1945)

Residence Salmson Le Point du Jour, lower income residential building, Boulogne Billancourt, France by Fernand Pouillon, 1958-1963

Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)

Roger Taillibert

Michel Pinseau

Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois

Florent Nédélec, DPLG

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