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
Jean de Chelles
Pierre de Montreuil
Matthias of Arras
Villard de Honnecourt – architecture plansRenaissance to Revolution
- Important book of architectural engravings
Philibert Delorme
Pierre Lescot
Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau
by de Brosse
Salomon de Brosse
Jean Androuet du Cerceau
at the Louvre
Jacques Lemercier – active for Richelieu
François Mansart
Louis Le Vau
Claude Perrault – responsible for establishing French classicism
, designed by Perrault, among others
Libéral Bruant
's chapel at Les Invalides
Jules Hardouin Mansart – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.
Robert de Cotte brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects
- Esplanade of Les Invalides
Ange-Jacques Gabriel – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
entrance front by Moreau-Desproux
Joseph Brousseau
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Claude Nicolas Ledoux – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu– famous for his use of steel
- Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
- National Library
Victor Baltard – famous for his use of steel and glass
- Les Halles centrales – destroyed in 1971 to make way for a shopping mall
- St. Eustache – remodel
- Saint-Étienne-du-Mont – remodel
- St. Augustin
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc – 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 – restoration
- Saint Séverin – restoration
Charles Garnier – celebrated architect of the Second Empire
- Palais Garnier, also known as the Paris Opera
- Théâtre Marigny
- Casino of Monte Carlo
Clair Tisseur, Romanesque Revival architect and designer
Frantz Jourdain – Art Nouveau architect and theorist
Eugène Vallin – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
Lucien Weissenburger – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
- Magasins Réunis, Nancy
- Villa Majorelle, Nancy
- Imprimerie Royer, Nancy
- Brenas Apartment House, Nancy
- Bergeret House, Nancy
- Weissenburger House, Nancy
- Brasserie Excelsior and Angleterre Hotel, Nancy
- Vaxelaire, Pignot, and Company Department Store, Nancy
Hector Guimard – Art nouveau architect and designer
Émile André – Art nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy
- Vaxelaire Department Store, Nancy
- Parc de Saurupt, Nancy, designer
- Maisons Huot, Nancy
- France-Lanord Apartment Building, Nancy
- Lombard Apartment Building, Nancy
- Renauld Bank, Nancy
- Ducret Apartment Building, Nancy
Auguste Perret and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete
- Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Paul Tournon
Robert Mallet-Stevens – modernist architect influenced by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Léon Azéma – appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928
Eugène Beaudouin – influential use of prefabricated elements
Jean Prouvé – international style/Bauhaus-inspired
François Spoerry
- 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
- La Villette City of Music
- Café Beaubourg
Henry Bernard
Jean-Marie Charpentier
Pascale Guédot
Michel Mossessian
Jean Nouvel
- Institut du Monde Arabe
- Fondation Cartier
- Torre Agbar, in Barcelona, Spain
- Musée du quai Branly
Roger Taillibert
Michel Pinseau
Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois
Florent Nédélec, DPLG
- The Jervois Hong Kong
- Yong He Yuan Taiwan
