Joseph Monier (1823-1906) reinforced concrete

Joseph Monier was a French gardener, and is considered the inventor of reinforced concrete. He made numerous attempts to make sturdy boxes and did this by plastering a network of wire with mortar. In 1867 he also obtained a patent for making concrete planters armed with iron. After that he acquired many patents in the field of reinforced concrete. Unfortunately, he died in poverty.

Main achievements
Pedestrian footbridge in Chazelet (1875).
Water reservoir in Clamart.

André Robert Mallet-Stevens (1887-1945) Architect

André Robert Mallet-Stevens was a French architect. He was a believer of the New Objectivity.

Main achievements
Cubist houses in the street named after him in Auteuil and in Paris on the Boulevard Suchet (1925).

Albert Laprade (1883-1978) architect, engineer and town planner.

Albert Laprade was a French architect, engineer and town planner. He was especially active in building dams in Rhône. He was one of the architects entrusted with the reorganization of the Ilot 16, the section of Paris, where the first to remediation has passed after the Second World War.

Main realisatis
He worked in the construction of the dams in the Rhone between Geneva and the Mediterranean Sea, commissioned by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.
Dam and related buildings in Génissiat (1938).

Tony Garnier (1869-1946) Architect

Tony Garnier was a French architect. He worked mainly in Lyon. He was one of the first that applied Reinforced Concrete Technology in his buildings with business style. From 1914 he was leader of the "Société des Entreprises Limosin. In memory of his achievements, in Lyon their is set up a museum named "Le Musée Urbain Tony Garnier.

Main buildings
Slaughterhouse in Lyon (1910).
Stadium of  Lyon (1916).
Cité Industrielle, (Project for an ideal city), 1904.
Rothschild Foundation Housing in Paris, 1905.
Slaughterhouse and Stockyard in Lyon, (1905-1924), later named after Halle Tony Garnier.
Grange-Blanche Hospital (now the  H. Edouard Herriot Hospital), Lyon (1910-1927).

Quartier des Etats-Unis Housing in Lyon

Villy Tony Garnier, Saint-Rambert in Lyon (1911).
Stade de Gerland, municipal stadium in Lyon (1914-1918).
Quartier des Etats-Unis Housing in Lyon (1919-1935).
Villa Gros, Saint-Hilaire de Touvet (1923).
Lyon en Saint-Etienne Pavilions, International Exposition of Modern Industrie and Decorative Art, Paris (1925).
Hotel de Ville town hall in Boulogne-Brillancourt (a realisation together with Jacques Debat-Ponsan) (1934).

Publicaties
Une Cité Industriëllle: Etude pour la construction des villes (1918).
Les grands travaux de la ville de Lyon (1920).

Charles Garnier (1825-1898) Architect

Charles Garnier was a French architect who had a major influence on his contemporaries.

Main buildings
Opéra in Paris (in French Rennaisscance Style) (1860).
Casino in Monte Carlo.
First modern-luxury residences in Paris.

Eugène Freyssinet (1879-1962) Architect

Eugène Freyssinet was a French architect. He was best known for his work in reinforced concrete buildings, including bridges and airport lounges. Eugene is also the inventor of prestressed concrete in 1928, he knew that this vibrating and steaming concrete was of great importance.

Most famous works
Aerostructures in Olry, Paris (1916).
Bridge at Villeneuve-sur-Lot (1918).

Jacques André Fouilhoux (1879-1945) architect

Jacques André Fouilhoux is an architect born in Paris that later moved to America. He collaborated with Albert Kahn. In America, he worked with Hood, N. Y. Reinhard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray.

Main achievements
Rockefeller Center in New York, skyscrapers including the series 'Holland House' (1932-1940).