French Architecture

French Architecture posts cover styles from Romanesque churches through Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance chateaux on the Loire, the formal classical work of Mansart and the Bourbons, Haussmann’s Paris boulevards, the Art Nouveau metro entrances of Hector Guimard, Le Corbusier’s modernism and the contemporary work of Jean Nouvel and Dominique Perrault. Articles look at specific buildings like Chartres, Mont Saint-Michel, Versailles, the Pompidou centre and the Louvre pyramid, and at the long French tradition of state-led monumental projects known as the grands travaux. There are also short pieces on regional styles in Brittany, Provence and Alsace.