François Cointeraux (1740–1830) was a French architect. He "discovered" pisé de terre (rammed earth) architecture in the Lyon region and promulgated its use in Paris. Born in Lyon, he is the nephew of a master mason, with whom he learns drawing, architecture and perspective. He starts working in his city of birth and in Grenoble as a construction entrepreneur and a land surveyor for Lyon until 1786, when he enters an examination of the , he is received in 1787, and moves to Paris the following year. There, he establishes several schools of rural architecture. His work at that time was mainly oriented towards the construction of incombustible rammed earth buildings built for agricultural purposes. In 1789, he is distinguished by the Royal Society of Agriculture of Paris. In year III of the