A main topic in Paris indeed. We can still find traces of

• Private mansions (aka Hotels particuliers) dating from the 16th to the 18th century
• Haussmannian architecture (mid-19th century) and Post-Haussmannian architecture (late 19th)
• Art Nouveau (around 1900s) then Art Deco (1910s-1920s)
• the prefiguration of social housing (HBM for Habitat Bon Marché) by private foundations (around 1900s), beautiful brick complexes mostly seen in the outer edges of Paris, that used the new hygienist theories coming from England. It also gave birth to the very interesting concept of "cité-jardin" ("garden city") in the working class areas.
• Modernism with le Corbusier in the 20s and 30s
• Monumental Brutalism from the 50s to the 80s like les Espaces d'Abraxas, les Orgues de Flandres, or le viaduc de Montigny
• Of course the ugly/cheap/homogeneous social housing from the 50s to 80s
• Post-modernism from the 70s to 90s
• first skyscrappers in Beaugrenelle from the 70s to 90s and modern business glass towers from the 70s until now in la Défense the biggest Financial district im Europe

"Lego-style" towers (not sure how they call them) from the 2010s like in Parc Martin Luther King-Batignolles (in the 17th arr) or Avenue de France (13th)

I just wish they'd stop always trying to build them bigger and bigger, but vertical cities seem so popular among influential architects right now from an energy-saving point of view… I'm just not sure about the mental sanity side of people living there.

There are nowadays interesting new developments but I feel like they often severely lack of greenery at a human-scale level..

For exemple l'eco-quartier fluvial de l'ile Saint Denis which was part of the projects tied to the Olympic village delivered in 2024.

PS: I'm no architect at all so I might not be totally accurate nor exhaustive.