Rococo to Modern Architecture in France

French architecture is some of the  most memorable in the world. Here you will find books that explore the development of modern architecture in France from the last of the royal works to Haussmann who gave Paris the wide boulevards and parks you will see now, continuing on with the Eiffel Tower, the most recognized shape in the skyline, and revolutionary 20th Century Le Corbusier.  Here are French architecture styles arranged chronologically with important examples and books for the ones you want to explore. 

18th C:  Rococo/Regency/Louis XV

General

• Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) 

• Views and Plans of the Petit Trianon at Versailles by Arizzoli-Clementel

19th C: Neoclassical/Neo-Renaissance/Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau  

General

• Architecture in France 1800-1900

Charles Garnier(1825-1898) Beaux-Arts--Paris Opera

• Charles Garnier's Paris Opera: Architectural Empathy and the Renaissance of French Classicism (Architectural History Foundation Book) 

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-1780)--Rationalist--Pantheon (Ste.-Genevieve) in Paris

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806)

Pierre-Francois Fontaine (1762-1853) and Charles Percier (1764-1838)--Empire remodel of Malmaison

Henri Labrouste (1801-1875)--Beaux-Arts--Bibliotheque Ste.-Genevieve

Hector Guimard-- Paris Metro entrance

Georges Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891)--Replanned Paris 1853-1870 to its modern layout with wide boulevards and parks.

• Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris

• Transforming Paris : The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann

20th Century Architects

Auguste Perret (1874-1954)--Structural Rationalist--Notre Dame, Le Raincy

•  Auguste Perret by Britton

Le Corbusier (a Swiss working in Paris)(1886-1965)--International Style

•   Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture 

• Le Corbusier : Architect of the Twentieth Century  

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