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French Architecture timeline
A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany
The Romans construct the massive Pont du Gard to bring water to the city of Nîmes
The full flowering of the Romanesque style is seen in the nave of the abbey church at Vézelay, in France
The new abbey church of St Denis is consecrated near Paris, introducing the style of architecture later known as Gothic
Construction begins in Paris on the Sainte Chapelle, designed to house relics acquired by Louis IX, the king of France
Francis I begins to transform Fontainebleau into a palace, employing artists who establish the mannerist school of Fontainebleau
Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau
The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau
The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret
Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture
The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara
Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
Le Corbusier's use of béton brut (raw concrete) introduces Brutalism
Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section
Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself
Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles
Le Corbusier completes the reinforced-concrete pilgrimage church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
The Pompidou Centre, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opens in Paris
US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid