List of French architects
The following is a chronological list of French architects.
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) Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510 – c. 1585) 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) Salomon de Brosse (1575–1626) Jean Androuet du Cerceau (1585–1649) 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 Libéral Bruant (c. 1636–1697) 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) 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) Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) – famous for his use of steel Victor Baltard (1805–1874) – famous for his use of steel and glass 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 Lucien Weissenburger (1860–1929) – Art nouveau architect, member of the École de Nancy 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 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) Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944) Henry Bernard (1912–94) Jean-Marie Charpentier Pascale Guédot (born 1960) Michel Mossessian Jean Nouvel (born 1945) Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986) Roger Taillibert Michel Pinseau Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois Florent Nédélec, DPLG
