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
Jean de Chelles
Pierre de Montreuil
Matthias of Arras
Villard de Honnecourt – architecture plans
Pierre d'Angicourt
Pierre de Chaule

Renaissance to Revolution

Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau
  • Important book of architectural engravings
Philibert Delorme
Pierre Lescot
Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau
Salomon de Brosse
Jean Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques Lemercier – active for Richelieu
François Mansart
Louis Le Vau
Claude Perrault – helped to establish French classicism
Libéral Bruant
Jules Hardouin Mansart – responsible for the massive expansion of the palace of Versailles into a permanent royal residence.
Pierre Lassurance
Robert de Cotte brother-in-law of J.H. Mansart, whom he assisted on numerous projects
Germain Boffrand
Pierre-Alexis Delamair
Jean Aubert
Ange-Jacques Gabriel – responsible for rococo constructions at Versailles
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Image:PalaysRoyal Front.JPG|thumb|upright=1.6|Palais-Royal entrance front by Moreau-Desproux
Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Joseph Brousseau
Claude Nicolas Ledoux – famous for his mathematical neoclassicism.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Revolution to World War II

Henri Labrouste – famous for his use of steel
Victor Baltard – famous for his use of steel and glass
[Image:LOperaParis.jpg|thumb|300px|Garnier's Paris Opera]
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc – important theoretician of the 19th-century Gothic revival
Charles Garnier – celebrated architect of the French Empire|Second Empire]
Clair Tisseur, Romanesque Revival architect and designer
Frantz JourdainArt Nouveau architect and theorist
Auguste Louzier Sainte-AnneChief architect of historic monuments
Eugène VallinArt nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
Lucien WeissenburgerArt nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy
Hector GuimardArt nouveau architect and designer
Émile AndréArt nouveau architect, urbanist and artist, member of the École de Nancy
Auguste Perret and his brothers Claude and Gustave – important for the first use of reinforced concrete
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 Prouvéinternational style/Bauhaus-inspired
François Spoerry

Post World War II

Image:Le Stade Olympique 3.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Montreal's Olympic Stadium by Roger Taillibert
Christian de Portzamparc
Henry Bernard
Jean-Marie Charpentier
Pascale Guédot
Michel Mossessian
Jean Nouvel
Fernand Pouillon
Roger Taillibert
Michel Pinseau
Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois
Florent Nédélec, DPLG
Philippe Maidenberg
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