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Various volumes of the “Guide to bioclimatic architecture” have been published.

In 1996, the European Master in Architecture and Sustainable Development was created together with the Toulouse School of Architecture and the EPFL in Lausanne.

In 2003, we won the Roberval Prize for Higher Education with the book Natural Lighting in Buildings.

The educational approach to teaching in Louvain-La-Neuve is made up of three blocks:

1 1) three-year Baccalaureate (“License” in France, equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree): raising students’ awareness about the issues we are interested in;

2 2) two-year Master’s degree: validation of awareness;

3 3) doctoral studies: reflection on this subject.

There are theory classes, project workshops and optional courses. The theory and the projects fully interact with one another. The specificity of our school was that the same teachers who taught theory lessons also conducted the workshops, which I think was specific to our school. For example, a first course on materials or climatic architecture is directly related to the first “habitat” project. The course on the physics of building (a theory course) then had an impact on the second project: natural light, with a model work in relation to the sky and the artificial sun.