• Source: List of French architects

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)

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
Pierre d'Angicourt (late 13th century)

Lucera castle
Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century)

Castel Nuovo




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
Château de 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 de 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) – helped to establish 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
Pierre Lassurance (1655–1724)

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

Esplanade of Les Invalides
Palais Rohan, Strasbourg
Germain Boffrand (1667–1754)

Château Lunéville
Remodelling of the Petit Luxembourg
Interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise
Pierre-Alexis Delamair (1675/6–1745)

Hôtel de Soubise
Hôtel de Rohan
Jean Aubert (c. 1680–1741)

Stables of the Château de Chantilly
Hôtel Biron
Palais Bourbon
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)

Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux (1727–1793)

Rue St. Honoré facade of the Palais-Royal in Paris (1770)
Second Salle du Palais-Royal, first purpose-built opera house in Paris
Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728–1799)

Hôtel Alexandre
Joseph Brousseau (1733–1797)

Various chateaux in the Limoges and the Limousin region
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
Saint-Étienne-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)
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

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

Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986)

Old Port of Marseille
Tabriz railway station
Résidence Salmson Le Point du Jour
Chateau de Belcastel
Roger Taillibert

Parc des Princes in Paris
Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, 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




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