Buildings / Sites 

Site of the Gallo Roman Forum

• ca. 100 - 200 CE

• Mixed-concrete rubble & brick

• Gallo-Roman Temple: cut-stone (ashlar)

The 'Cluny' Bath

• 96 CE - 200 CE

• Opus Mixtum - mixed brick, stone, cement

The Gallo-Roman Amphitheater 

• Arena of Lutece

• 100-200 CE

• Scaenae Frons: permanent backdrop for stage

The Late Empire  walls around Ile de la Cité

The Church of Saint-Julien the Poor

• Parish church (neighbourhood church)

• 1140

• Style: transition from round to pointed arch (romanesque to gothic)

The College of the Bernardins

• 1245

• Monastery complex

• Patron: Ciscercian (reformist monks)

The Cathedral of Notre Dame

• Began 1160

• Style: Gothic/French Style

• Patron/Architect: Bishop Sully

• Material: Large block masonry construction

• Chronology:

  • 1160: Maurice de Sully begins planning for new cathedral

  • 1163: King Louis VII & Pope Alexandre III lay the first stones

  • 1177: Choir completed

  • 1182: Main alter is consecrated & nave & transept completed

  • 1208: West facade completed

  • 1230: Windows of the Nave are enlarged

  • 1240-1250: construction completed on the 2 towers

The Sainte-Chapelle (Reliquary)

• Begins 1241

• Consecrated 1248

• Style: Gothic, Rayonnant (Radiant Gothic)

• Erected by Louis IX (Saint Louis)

Hôtel de Sens

• Hotel particulier (townhouse)

• 1450 - 1500

• Bishop of Sens

Saint-Eustache

• Patron: Parish (Francois I)

• 1530

• Style: Greco-Roman

• Pilasters: flat columns with corinthium + composite

• Micro-architecture

• Enters through transept (facing market) instead of west front

François I's plan for the Louvre

• Style: Al’Antico 

  • Greco-Roman

  • Square-top windows

• Began 1546

• Architect: Pierre Lescot, Ornaments by Jean Goujon

Hôtel de Sully

• 1624

• Patron: Duke of Sully

• Style: Al’Antico / Greco Roman

• L’Orangerie

Hôtel de Ville

• 1526

• Style: Al’Antico

• Patron: Francois I & Provost of Merchants

• Architect: after drawings by Il Bocadoro

• Now: city hall 

The Place des Vosges (former Place Royal)

• 1607

• Patron: Henry IV

• Materiality: Brick or plaster made to look like brick

• Aristocrat housing with artist/silk workshops

Place de France (never completed)

• Goose-foot - radiating line

• Patron: Henri IV

East front of the Louvre

• Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, Claude Perrault

• Palace of apollo myths

The Long Gallery of the Louvre (aka Gallery along the Seine)

• Grand Gallery of Louvre

• Artists (academies) living in the lower floors, gallery in high floors

Tuileries Gardens

• 1664

• Patron: Louis XIV

• Style: Perspective

• Architect: André Le Nôtre

• Foreshortening: same size (fountains) looking down/far to arc de triumph

• Parterres: flat composition of flowers

• Bosquet: formal plantation of trees in a block

Place de la Concorde (former Place Louis XV) 

• 1760 - 1775

• Patron: Louis XV

• Architect: Gabriel

• Purpose: embellishing city instead of glory of king and at the edge of the city

Invalides 

• 1675

• Patron: Louis XIV

• Architect: Bruent

• Purpose: for veterans to stop/control crime

• Lack of ornaments/ monastic

Royal Chapel at Les Invalides

• 1675 - 1680

• Patron: Louis XIV (wanted to be buried here)

• Architect: Mansart

• Napoleon I buried here

Place des Victoires

• 1685

• Architect: Hardouin Mansart

• Patron: Louis XIV

Place Vendôme 

• 1699

• Architect: Hardouin Mansart

• Typology: Place Royal

• Urban square built for better viewing/display of equestrian style of Louis XIV

The Boulevards

• Patron: Louis XIV

• Linear park system and avenues for public walking space

Vauban Fortress 

• 1672 - 1678; Franco-Dutch war

• Patron: Louis XIV

• Architect/Engineer: Sebastian le Preste de Vauban

• Style: Trace Italienne

• Star shape

  • Eliminates blind spots, funnels enemies into on entrance

Odean Theatre

• 1765

• Architect: De Wailly

• Style: Neoclassicism

Hotel de Soubise 

• Exterior: 1710s & Neoclassicism

• Interior: 1730s & Rococo

  • Architect: Boffrand

• Patron: Prince of Soubise

• Architect/Engineer: Sebastian le Preste de Vauban

• Style: Trace Italienne

• Star shape

  • Eliminates blind spots, funnels enemies into on entrance