List of French Architects - Revolution To World War II

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
  • St. Etienne 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)

François Spoerry (1912–1999)

  • Grimaud, Var, France
  • Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  • Port Liberté, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
  • Bendinat, Majorca, Spain
  • Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon

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

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