art appre class

1. French Architects

2. Louis Le Vau
Was a French Classical architect
who worked for Louis XIV of
France.

3. Louis Le Vau
Born:
1612, Paris, France
Died:
October 11, 1670, Paris, France
Period:
Baroque

4. Works

5. Palace of Versailles

6. Vaux-le-Vicomte

7. Grand trianon

8. Jacques- Germain Soufflot
• French Architect in the 18th Century
• A leader in the development of Neoclassical
architecture
• He studied Law before he Studied Architecture
• Major Inspirations: Gothic Style, Greek
Architecture

9. Works

10. Temple du Change

11. Louvre Staircase

12. The Pantheon in Paris

13. François
Mansart
Born:
January 13, 1598, Paris, France
Died:
September 23, 1666, Paris,
France

14. • François Mansart was a French architect
credited with introducing classicism into
Baroque architecture of France.
• The Encyclopædia Britannicacites him as the
most accomplished of 17th-century French
architects whose works "are renowned for
their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and
elegance".
• Mansart, as he is generally known, made extensive
use of a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof
punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope,
creating additional habitable space in the garrets that
ultimately became named after him—the mansard
roof.

15. Works

16. Château de Balleroy
The Château de Maisons, designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a
prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history
of French architecture.
The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the
department of Yvelines, Île-de-France

18. Val-de-Grâce
• The Church of the Val-de-Grâce
is the church of a former royal
abbey in the 5th
arrondissement of Paris, in
what is now the Val-de-Grâce
Hospital. The dome of the
church is a principal landmark
of the skyline of Paris. Opened
in the year 1650

20. Château de Blois
• The residence of several French kings, it is also the place where Joan of Arc
went in 1429 to be blessed by theArchbishop of Reims before departing with
her army to drive the English fromOrléans.
• Built in the middle of the town that it effectively controlled, the château of
Bloiscomprises several buildings constructed from the 13th to the 17th
century around the main courtyard.
• It has 564 rooms and 75 staircases although only 23 were used frequently.
There is a fireplace in each room. There are 100 bedrooms.
• The Royal Château de Blois is located in the
Loir-et-Cher département in the Loire
Valley, in France, in the center of the city of
Blois.

21. • a French architect and building contractor, was one of
the first to use concrete as an architecturally
significant material, and his works had an important
influence upon the International Style of the 1920s in
Europe.

22. • 1920s in Europe.
• Auguste studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris but left
without a degree and joined his father's firm. This, at the death of the elder
Perret in 1905, became Perret Frères, including as principals Auguste and his
brother Gustave. Perret Freres both designed its own buildings and executed
the designs of others in reinforced concrete.
• Perret also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the
Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French
painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.[1] From
1940 Perret taught at the École des Beaux-Arts. He won the Royal Gold Medal
in 1948 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1952.

23. Works

24. Rue Franklin apartments, Paris, 1902–1904

25. Garage at 51 Rue de Ponthieu 1905

26. Church of Notre Dame (1922) at Le Raincy near
Paris aka Église Notre-Dame du Raincy

27. Concert hall of the École Normale de Musique
de Paris, 1929

28. Tour Perret, Grenoble

29. St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre

30. Jean Nouvel
Born:
12 August 1945
• Studied at the École des Beaux-
Arts in Paris and was a founding
member of Mars 1976 and
Syndicat de l'Architecture.

31. • He has obtained a number of prestigious
distinctions over the course of his career,
including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
(technically, the prize was awarded for the
Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel
designed), the Wolf Prize in Artsin 2005 and
the Pritzker Prize in 2008.
• A number of museums and architectural
centres have presented retrospectives of his
work.

32. Works

33. Torre Agbar
The Torre Agbar is a 38-story skyscraper /
towerlocated between Avinguda Diagonal and
Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries
Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new
technological district ofBarcelona, Catalonia,
Spain.

35. 100 Eleventh
Avenue
• 100 Eleventh Avenue is a 23-story
residential tower at the intersection of
19th Street and the West Side
Highway in the borough of Manhattan,
New York City, New York. The building
is described as “a vision machine” by
the architect Jean Nouvel. It has one
of the most technologically advanced
curtain wall systems in New York

37. The Koncerthuset
• The Koncerthuset/ Copenhagen
Concert Hall is a part of the new DR
Byen that houses the Danish
Broadcasting Corporation, DR. The
concert hall and the DR Town are
located in the northern part of restad -
an ambitious development area in
Copenhagen, Denmark.

39. Christian de Portzamparc
Born:
May 5, 1944

40. Christian de Portzamparc
• 1989. Commander of the Order of Arts
• 1990. Great Prize of Architecture of the City of Paris
• 1994. Pritzker Architecture Prize
• He is the author of Généalogie des formes = Genealogy of Forms (1996), in
French and English, and the co-author (with Philippe Sollers) of Voir, écrire
(2003; Eng. trans. Writing and Seeing Architecture).

41. Christian de Portzamparc
Is a French architect and urban planner whose distinctly modern
and elegant designs reflect his sensitivity to and understanding of
the greater urban environment. He was the first French architect
to win the Pritzker Prize.
Portzamparc’s interest in architecture and the built environment
was stirred at a young age when he viewed sketches by Swiss
architect Le Corbusier.

43. Works & Practices

44. PARIS OPÉRA BALLET SCHOOL. Nanterre, France
. 1987 tices

45. PHILHARMONIE LUXEMBOURG. 2005

46. PARIS OPÉRA BALLET SCHOOL. Nanterre, France
. 1987 tices

47. CIDADE DAS ARTES. Rio de Janeiro. 2013

48. HOTEL RENAISSANCE ARC DE TRIOMPHE. Paris,
France. 2009

49. Ange- Jacques
Gabriel
• French Architect
• Famous During the Late 17- 18th
century
• Built or enlarged many châteaus
and palaces during the reign of
Louis XV.
• They were a family of Architects

50. Ange- Jacques
Gabriel
• His structures exhibit a “noble
simplicity” in the austere but
harmonious arrangement of
their masses and their subdued
Classical decoration.
• He was also notable for his use
of attached columns in place of
pilasters, in both exterior and
interior facades.

51. Works

52. Palace of Versailes

53. Hotel de Crillon

54. Le Petite Trianon

55. Le Corbusier
• Swiss-French architect, designer,
painter, urban planner, writer,
and one of the pioneers of what
is now called modern
architecture.
• Architectural Style is Modern

56. Le Corbusier
• Although he was working as a Cubist
painter at the time, he felt that Cubism
had grown too romantic; thus, the
manifesto was his ode to a new artistic
movement: Purism.
• Le Corbusier’s design philosophy was
heavily inspired by mathematical
concepts used by Leonard da Vinci,
such as the golden ratio and the
Fibonacci series, which he used as the
basis for his architectural proportions.

57. Works

58. Philips Pavilion

59. Notre Dame du Haut

60. Carpenter Center of Visual Arts

61. Pierre Lescot
• was one of the most famous
architects practicing during the
French Renaissance, and is often
remembered as the man
responsible for realizing ‘pure
and correct’ classical
architecture in France. He is
most famous for his designs for
the Louvre, a section now
referred to as the Lescot Wing.

62. The Louvre
Museum
• The Louvre Museum is one of the oldest and largest
museums in the world, and almost certainly the
most famous and situated in a grand 16th century
palace in the heart of Paris.