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76-741: It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in Brussels, with UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and Saint-Louis University, Brussels . Following the split of the Catholic University of Louvain into two legally independent entities in 1968, the majority of the French-speaking university was relocated in Louvain-la-Neuve ( Walloon Brabant ) since 1972. It was however decided to move the medical school to

152-426: A Kot-à-projet (kap) is a kot whose inhabitants have similar interests and who organise activities for the general student population, they are similar to Fraternity and sorority houses , but smaller in size with only the committee living in the kot. Being small several Kots can be situated in the same, university owned, apartment building. One of them is "le kap contes", a kot promoting the art of storytelling. Another

228-578: A planned city built in the 1970s, the Woluwe site is built on an urban and neo-pedestrian model. The campus is centered around the Place de l'Alma , the main square built on different levels, whose buildings are now listed as protected monuments. From the very beginning, the Alma square is planned to include the university's administrative services (the "Mairie"), commercial and leisure facilities, particularly in

304-826: A full merger aborted by an insufficient vote by the general assembly of the FUNDP in December 2010. The result was a merger between the University of Louvain and the FUCaM in Mons , effective from 15 September 2011. The Mons campus is denoted UCLouvain FUCaM Mons. The three universities still collaborate in consortium, the Académie Louvain . Within this group, member universities have coordinated their masters programmes in

380-560: A large part of Belgium's elite and is still considered, with its Dutch-speaking sister, as a centre of excellence in many fields. In 2006, it was ranked 76th in the world universities ranking established by the Times Higher Education supplement (24th in Europe). In the 2011 QS World University Rankings the University of Louvain was ranked 125th overall in the world, moving up one place from its position of joint 126th in

456-606: A multidisciplinary biomedical research institute which also serves as the Belgian branch of Ludwig Cancer Research . Other UCLouvain institutes include the Louvain Drug Research Institute, the Institute of NeuroScience , the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research or the Institute of Health and Society Research. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer , ILSI Europe ,

532-777: A simple house. In reality, it is a vast settlement abandoned by the Meurice Institute of Chemistry (nowadays part of the Haute école libre Lucia de Brouckère and located on the CERIA campus in Anderlecht ), hidden behind residential buildings and straddling Ixelles and Saint-Gilles . Lectures are also given in the building on rue d'Irlande, the headquarters of the Saint-Luc institutes in Brussels. The folkloric student association Cercle des étudiants architectes de Saint-Luc

608-730: A vast international-style building was built on the Chaussée de Charleroi , n° 132 in Saint-Gilles, by architect Émile Verhaegen, also founder and president of the UCL-Saint-Luc research centre in Louvain-la-Neuve . The building which hosted offices, was taken over by the Institut Saint-Luc, of which Émile Verhaegen was a member, during the 1990s, and was from then on used by the ISA Saint-Luc. This remained

684-726: A vice-dean and library (BAIU-Tournai). The Catholic University of Louvain has been offering engineering degrees in Louvain ( Leuven ) since 1964, within the so-called Écoles speciales or Special Schools, part of the Faculty of Sciences. The Special School of Architecture was one of the last to be founded, with the Special School of Electricity. The Écoles spéciales moved to the Arenberg Castle in Heverlee , in

760-830: Is called "Kap Délices" which suggests varied activities such as theme buffets, cooking lessons, and material renting. The AGL (General Assembly of Louvain students) is the UCLouvain's Students' union . The body comprises an executive Committee, and a legislative Council. The Committee consists of ex-officio members: President, Vice-Presidents for Education & Welfare, VP for the Medicine faculty (situated in UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe ), General Secretary, Activities Officer, Communications Officer, Operations Officer, Foreign student's Officer, Cultural Officer, Editor-in-Chief & Deputy Editor-in-Chief as well as

836-664: Is in UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe , Woluwe-Saint-Lambert , Brussels , where the faculty of medicine is installed. The UCLouvain hosts Belgium's largest university museum in Louvain-la-Neuve; the Musée L . It exhibits part of the university's 32,000 piece wide collection of art and scientific objects including works of Dürer , Van Dyck , Goya , Rodin , Picasso , Magritte or Alechinski , sculptures , archaeological and ethnographic objects or specimens of natural history . The UCLouvain FUCaM Mons campus also owns

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912-419: Is in no way an obligation to be baptized in order to be a part of a Cercle or to frequent them. The calotte is a Belgian student cap worn by students attending Catholic universities. They are emblems of student folklore dating back to the late 19th century. Nowadays, most calottes are passed by way of a ceremony known as the coronae. How they are passed and what must be known or done to deserve it depends on

988-836: The Brussels Capital-Region jointly organised by UCLouvain and the Université libre de Bruxelles ) or the Doctoral Seminars on Sustainability in the Built Environment which are organised by eight Belgian universities ( Hasselt , Ghent , Liège , VUB , ULB , KU Leuven and UCLouvain ). In application of the Bologna Process harmonising the European Higher Education Area , the faculty brings together

1064-611: The Crainhem metro station, the campus is enclosed by its own fire station, PASI UCLouvain , as well as the power station and central heating system. The eastern part of the campus is made up of a park with a botanical garden of medicinal plants , the Jardin Paul Moens. Since March 2019, the UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus has its own local police office , made up of five police officers from

1140-703: The Louvain School of Engineering . Together, the Louvain School of Engineering and LOCI hold 40% of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation 's engineering students, making it the country's largest engineering school , by far. At the research level, the faculty takes part in the Doctoral Commission of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Construction and Urban Planning (CDI). It also comprises a research institute within

1216-550: The Montgomery police zone. UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe hosts the entire Sector of Health Sciences of UCLouvain, with the exception of the Faculty of Motor Sciences (FSM) which is in Louvain-la-Neuve . The campus hosts many private and public research institutions, which can be independent, related to universities, companies, or part of UCLouvain. Most notably, Brussels Woluwe hosts UCLouvain's de Duve Institute,

1292-684: The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Tournai (in what is now the Brothers of Tournai school) as a drawing school, together with the Saint-Grégoire music school, intended for the teaching of church organ . In what was at the time the independent commune of Ramegnies-Chin , the Passy-Froyennes Institute was founded in 1904, with a vast new neo-Gothic building that still houses Saint-Luc Tournai today. In fact, it

1368-605: The Saint-Gilles prison . The new buildings constitute the former Sanders Pharmaceutical Laboratories, designed in the Beaux-Arts style in 1927 and listed as protected on Brussels' regional heritage list since 1996. The UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles campus has its own administration including a vice-dean and library (BAIU-Brussels). The Institut Saint-Luc de Tournai was founded in 1878 in front of

1444-671: The Saint-Luc Institutes of Brussels to merge by absorption within the University of Louvain . During its first year within UCLouvain, the newly established LOCI Faculty kept settled in the ISA Saint-Luc buildings on the Chaussée de Charleroi . As soon as the merger was completed, a brand new campus was opened, still in Saint-Gilles and the neighbourhood of the Instituts Saint-Luc , called UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles , located at rue Wafelaerts, next to

1520-564: The University of Louvain ) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally established in 1425). It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve , which was expressly built to house the university, and Brussels , Charleroi , Mons , Tournai and Namur . Since September 2018, the university uses the branding UCLouvain, replacing the acronym UCL, following a merger with Saint-Louis University, Brussels . The original University of Louvain ( Universitas Lovaniensis )

1596-560: The master's degrees (MARC and MIAR). In addition to these commissions which can be considered as undergraduate and graduate departments, the School of urbanism and territorial planning (URBA) coordinates teaching and research in urban planning. LOCI organizes studies in architectural civil engineering in Louvain-la-Neuve , and architecture in Tournai and Brussels . Studies in architectural civil engineering are organized jointly with

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1672-779: The 15th century, Leuven/Louvain , as it is still often called, has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic theology. The Catholic University of Leuven , based in Leuven (" Louvain " in French), 30 km east of Brussels , provided lectures in French from its founding in 1834, and in Dutch from 1930. In 1968, the Dutch-language section became the independent Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , which remained in Leuven, while

1748-638: The 2009 THE–QS World University Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). An overview of the THE-QS Rankings: QS World University Rankings Cercles are Student Societies or Fraternities based around each faculty. The Cercles, along with the Régionales (which are based around their respective regions of origin) coordinate and manage most of

1824-622: The Alps during the Winter Break). Every Cercle and Régionale has its own customs and traditions, but some are practiced by all: The Baptême ( French : baptism ) is a hazing ceremony used by most to induct new members, who then participate in a number of trials and activities involving eggs and other foodstuff, paint, demeaning chants etc. Baptized members (les Baptisés) are among the most common type of members, and some Cercles and Régionales try to only accept new members this way, although it

1900-562: The Cercle or Régionale. One thing that is universally known, is that there is a lot of singing involved. Cercles are notorious for their generally high output of alcohol (especially beer) and low level of cleanliness. Students tend to wear old clothes that they don't mind damaging or dirtying as a consequence, and the overall ambiance is more akin to a rave or a frat-party than a nightclub or sports bar. Student accommodation in Belgium comes in

1976-605: The Department of architectural civil engineering was transferred from the Louvain School of Engineering to the new LOCI faculty. The deanship and the central administrative headquarters of LOCI are located in Louvain-la-Neuve, in buildings still shared with the School of Engineering. Universit%C3%A9 catholique de Louvain#Sector of Human Sciences (SSH) UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain , officially in English

2052-983: The European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, the European Brain Council , the European Association of Neurooncology, the European Oncology Nursing Society, the European Society of Surgical Oncology, Fonds Cancer (FOCA), the International Society for Radiation Oncology, the Belgian Association of Nursing Practitioners and the Society for the Promotion of Life-Cycle Analysis (SPOLD) all have their headquarters in

2128-451: The Faculty of Applied Sciences were still offered on the Heverlee campus. From 1973, the programs for the last three years of civil engineering were given at the new Louvain-la-Neuve site, while the candidature degrees (undergraduate) were still being taught at Heverlee. In 1975, the entire Faculty of Applied Sciences (FSA) of the UCL was established in Louvain-la-Neuve. The students from

2204-522: The French-speaking part of the university at a campus in Brussels or Wallonia were quietly discussed from the early 1960s, but it was not anticipated that the French-speaking section would become an entirely independent university and lose all of its buildings and infrastructure in Leuven . The first stone of the new campus at Louvain-la-Neuve was laid in 1971, and the transfer of faculties to

2280-402: The French-speaking university was expelled to a greenfield campus and town, Louvain-la-Neuve , 30 km south-east of Brussels, in a part of the country where French is the official language. This separation also entailed dividing existing library holdings between the two new universities. With the democratization of university education already stretching existing structures, plans to expand

2356-537: The ISA Saint-Luc de Liège to the University of Liège , and the ISA Saint-Luc de Tournai to the Université catholique de Louvain . The Faculty of Architecture of UCLouvain was thus created and continued to teach architecture within the complex of the Chaussée de Tournai in Ramegnies-Chin. However, like in Brussels, the university started establishing plans for an independent and proper architecture campus in

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2432-939: The Lumière Group), the Belgian Entertainment Association , the Belgian Anti-piracy Federation, AFS Intercultural Programs ' AFS Foundation and the SIMIM (Belgian Society of the Music Industry). The European Liaison Office of the Embassy of the United States of America to Belgium and the European Union is also located in the campus' university district. On Place de l'Alma, the campus also hosts

2508-416: The State of Belgium in Louvain. The same year, shortly after the suppression of the State University, the Catholic University of Belgium moved to Louvain. It took advantage of the reputation of the city as an ancient university centre and adopted a new name: Catholic University of Louvain (Université catholique de Louvain). In a Catholic spirit inspired by Pope Gregory XVI , the promoter and first rector of

2584-413: The Tournai city-center. In 2012, the UCLouvain took over the Hôtel des Anciens Prêtres building (now the Hôtel des Architectes , which currently houses the administrative services), bought from the city of Tournai , as well as a former building of the State Archives in Tournai ( Archives ), which itself had moved to the former site of the Casterman printing house in 2010. UCLouvain also decided buy

2660-407: The UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai campuses. Its abbreviated name refers to Latin word for given places, loci . Within the faculty, four different so-called Commissions de programme organise and supervise the teaching curricula: one commission for the bachelor's degrees in architecture (BARC), one for the bachelor in architectural civil engineering (BIAR), and same for

2736-538: The University of Louvain, including the FUCaM in Mons that integrated the UCL in 2011, Saint-Louis University, Brussels that formally integrated the university in 2023. The faculties of Philosophy, Arts and Human Sciences, Economic, Social, Political and Communication Sciences (ESPB), Law (DRTB), the Institute for European Studies (IEEB) and the Marie-Haps Faculty of Translating and Interpreting of autonomous UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles campus are not attached to their corresponding counterparts of UCLouvain. While

2812-464: The adjacent site belonging to Cofidis (currently the Manufacture and Filature Buildings). Portuguese architectural firm Aires Mateus was appointed to design the new site, including the construction of a deconstructivist connecting building. In 2017, the Tournai campus of the University of Louvain was inaugurated, with its main entrance located rue du Glategnies. As in Brussels, the UCLouvain Tournai campus has its own administration including

2888-467: The architecture school's main location until the merger with UCLouvain . The Wallonia-Brussels Federation decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities the right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools (ISA, Instituts supérieurs d'architecture , which were a separate type of institutions of higher education, next to universities, colleges and schools of arts). In 2010, ISA Saint-Luc left

2964-467: The campus is served by the stops Alma and Vandervelde . UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning#Brussels Saint-Gilles The Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (in French : Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme ), often called LOCI , is the 14th faculty of the University of Louvain , Belgium. It became an independent faculty in 2009, with

3040-445: The centralized management of secondary school, art school, architecture school and schools of continued and specialized education, since 1955. From 1979 onwards, architecture has been taught within the Institut supérieur d'Architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai (Ramegnies-Chin) , holding the statute of an independent school of architecture. In 1982, a research institute called Études et Recherches architecturales de l'ISA (abbreviated ERA)

3116-409: The city's rapid transit network, located in the centre of the campus, was inaugurated in 1986. Initially dedicated to education in medical sciences by the university or partner schools, the campus quickly became a multidisciplinary hub by inviting an increasing number of partner institutions, to become Brussels' second largest student campus, with over 14,000 students. Similar to Louvain-la-Neuve ,

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3192-423: The eastern suburbs of Brussels, including the construction of a new university hospital complex. In 1968, UCLouvain acquired land in the Brussels municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and set up its medical faculties, which opened in 1974. In the early 1970s, the university also began construction of the new hospital, the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc , which were inaugurated in 1976. The Alma metro station on

3268-460: The extended collection of the Convent of the Black Sisters in the city-center of Mons , where the university has placed its Ateliers des FUCaM campus. UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels also owns a classical and modern art collection, primarily paintings recovered from its original campus in Mechelen . The University of Louvain educates around 27,261 students from 127 nationalities in all areas of studies at its different campuses. It has educated

3344-408: The faculty itself (LOCI-R or Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme - Recherche ), being the university's only faculty comprising such structure. This institute is further made up of several research centres including: Other laboratories, centres and institutes were founded on particular campus, as LoCiLoCaL in Tournai, Metrolab in Brussels (a trans-disciplinary institute of

3420-413: The faculty were the first students (and residents) of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve. In 1983, Émile Verhaegen, President of the ISA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, founded the Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de l'Architecture U.C.L. - Saint-Luc research center, abbreviated CREARCH, in Louvain-la-Neuve. With the creation of the new Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning in 2009,

3496-407: The fields of economics, management, political sciences and sciences as well as the doctoral programmes in all disciplines. In September 2018, the University of Louvain (or UCL until then) and Saint-Louis University, Brussels de facto merged, founding the UCLouvain , a denomination they currently share. In 1425, Dukes of Brabant created the University of Louvain (Université de Louvain), which

3572-426: The form of a " kot ", a term having Belgian Dutch origin. A "kot" can be translated as den or hut. The French way to form the plural of "kot" is "kots" (in Dutch, the plural of "kot" is "koten"). In the bilingual region of Brussels, where there are both Dutch- and French-speaking universities and their students, it is common that "for rent" signs are in French only, with the French plural of "kot". Unique to UCLouvain

3648-406: The former Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Bruxelles and Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Wallonie in Tournai, and the architecture and urban planning units of the École polytechnique de Louvain (then called Faculty of Applied Sciences). The LOCI faculty thus occupies the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve, UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai. When it

3724-500: The headquarters of the American Overseas Memorial Day Association Foundation . Two hotels are furthermore located on the university's grounds. Two metro stations are located on UCLouvain grounds: Alma and Crainhem . Various STIB bus lines cross UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe. The hospital is served by the stops UCL Saint-Luc (north) and UCL Cliniques (south), the faculty buildings by the Dunette (north), UCL Auditoires (centre), Mounier and Crainhem (east) stops. The south of

3800-688: The main campus of the University of Louvain is based in Louvain-la-Neuve , it also comprises a campus in Brussels, UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe , in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert , which until recently was called "Louvain-en-Woluwe" hosting the university's sector of medical science and primary academic hospital (8000 students), a campus in Mons called UCLouvain FUCaM Mons (2300 students), a minor installation in Charleroi with 133 students (as of 2011) at UCLouvain Charleroi , an architectural school in Tournai , UCLouvain Tournai, with 540 students (as of 2011), and an architectural school in Brussels , UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles, with 570 students (as of 2011). With

3876-426: The main teaching locations as well as the Health Sciences Library. Attached to the Central Auditoriums, the André Simonart auditorium , with 900 seats, Brussels second largest, was inaugurated in 2015. Further east are various academic and scientific buildings, mainly research centres including the de Duve Institute and the Belgian branch of Ludwig Cancer Research , followed by the Mounier Sports Complex. Finally, above

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3952-436: The merger of three institutes founded between 1867 and 1882, and is active in Brussels ( Saint-Gilles ), Tournai and Louvain-la-Neuve . LOCI is a component of UCLouvain 's Science and Technology Sector (SST). Its headquarters and the dean 's office are located in Louvain-la-Neuve , in buildings shared with the Louvain School of Engineering , though the majority of its students, staff, teaching and activity take place on

4028-411: The merger with Saint-Louis University, it also comprises an independent campus specialized in education and research of social and human sciences in the center of the City of Brussels , UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles and the Marie-Haps Faculty of Translating and Interpreting in Ixelles ' European quarter , next to the European Parliament (4150 students). UCLouvain's main medical implementation

4104-443: The municipality of Saint-Gilles in 1904. Following the language crises of the 1960s and the Leuven crisis of 1968 , the institute split in two and the French-speaking department of the Institute of Architecture moved to the municipality of Ixelles , near the Saint-Luc secondary school and art school already present in Saint-Gilles. The Institute of Architecture establishes its headquarters at 70 rue Defacqz, near avenue Louise , in

4180-461: The new site was completed in 1979. According to a 2007 agreement, the University of Louvain was to absorb three smaller French-speaking catholic colleges: the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix ( FUNDP ) located in Namur , the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis ( FUSL ) located in Brussels (later called Saint-Louis University, Brussels) and the Catholic university of Mons ( FUCaM ) located in Mons and Charleroi . The negotiations for

4256-408: The other hand a wing with modular spaces, many variations in elevation, width and height within each room and sinuous corridors. Shared kots have also been designed, called granges ("barns"). To the north of Place de l'Alma are the UCLouvain buildings: the hospital at north-west, university spaces to the east. Among the latter, the Auditoires Centraux , the first building of the campus, houses

4332-475: The president of the council. Quinzaine a university produced newsletter, La Savate produced by the AGL and the monthly l'étincelle by the Kot-à-projet KAP Etincelle. Cercles also produce publications. The 24 Hour Cycle (24h Vélo) is, nominally, a bicycle endurance road race held in October, organised by CSE Animations (Centre Sportif Etudiant). While there is an elite race with teams of two, Student groups enter novelty themed multi-bike vehicles, in

4408-404: The province of Walloon Brabant , and one Dutch speaking, which remained in the same location. In 1970, these two universities were established by law as the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven and Université catholique de Louvain . In 1971, the first foundation stone was laid in Louvain-la-Neuve, a new city constructed for the French-speaking university. Evolution of the number of students at

4484-401: The right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools. The same year, ISA Saint-Luc Tournai initiated discussions to integrate the University of Louvain , as well as discussions with institutions located in France, given its large capital of French students. In 2009, the association I.S.A. St-Luc Wallonie was dissolved, transferring

4560-433: The school, mainly an architecture school , had 500 students. Architecture courses were also held in downtown Tournai, rue de la Tête d'Or and rue du Chambge, up until the Second World War . The French De La Salle brothers lived at the institute, almost in exile, until 1959, when they returned to France to found the La Salle Passy Buzenval collège, one of Paris' most prestigious secondary schools. The institute's management

4636-736: The students' animation and nightlife. Most Cercles run small bars to fund their activities, and also jointly operate a larger nightclub, "La Casa". Cercles and Régionales are run exclusively by member students known as the committee. These members are elected every year, usually by voting from all members (active or otherwise) wishing to participate, although some Cercles restrict the number of possible voters in some cases. Aside from promoting student folklore and coordinating student animation, Cercles also offer academic aid to students in their respective faculties and organize more cultural activities, such as visits to museums and/or other cities, conferences, and low-cost trips for students (for example skiing in

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4712-416: The students. This is how the Maison Médicale (the "Mémé") was built on the Place de l'Alma , a vast multi-functional building with student accommodation on the higher floors. The buildings are designed in an ambivalent way with two opposing "wings": for example in the Mémé , Lucien Kroll envisions on one side, a so-called "fascist wing", with identical kots (student rooms) down over a long corridor, and on

4788-410: The suburbs of Louvain, between 1925 and 1931. The School of Urban and Regional Planning (URBA), whose structure within the faculty has remained intact since then, was founded in 1961. The same year, the Écoles spéciales merged into the Faculty of Applied Sciences ( Faculté des sciences appliquées , FSA), as an entity which for the first time was independent from the Faculty of Science. The Faculty

4864-453: The university's buildings. Research facilities of FMC BioPolymer and Boehringer Ingelheim are also located on the campus. The campus hosts a number of private institutions, lobby groups, technological companies and foundations. Most notably, these include the headquarters of the Ultratop , the Belgian Association of Film Distributors (jointly owned by Twentieth Century Fox Belgium, Belga Films, Kinepolis , The Walt Disney Company , and

4940-468: The university, Monseigneur de Ram, wanted to create a shield that would repulse religion's enemies and block every doctrine weakening the base of Catholic society. The pharmacy school was founded in 1845 and the engineering school in 1865. In 1884 the Catholic University of Louvain celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. In 1968, as a result of linguistic issues, the university was divided into two different universities: one French speaking, which moved to

5016-414: The vast Mémé complex, as well as a metro station, Alma , considered to be a total artwork . The metro station was initially planned under the university hospital. Indeed, a large space in the state of structural work exists under the hospital, hidden from the public. The centre of Louvain-en-Woluwe is the work of the architect Lucien Kroll . His plan was to build a university town in consultation with

5092-428: Was formed in 1973 followed by the association of former students of the ISA Saint-Luc in 1981, called Architecture Recherche Communication (dissolved in 2009). Yet a Catholic institution, the students of Saint-Luc are wearing the penne instead of the calotte . In 1986, the school's organizing power was again centralized and transferred to the "organizing committee of the Saint-Luc Institutes in Saint-Gilles". In 1965,

5168-401: Was founded at the centre of the historic town of Leuven (or Louvain ) in 1425, making it the first university in Belgium and the Low Countries , and abolished by law in 1797. This university was the centre of Baianism , Jansenism and Febronianism in Europe. A new university, the State University of Louvain, was founded in 1817 and abolished by the law in 1835. A new catholic university

5244-519: Was founded in 2010, the faculty was for a short period called the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Town and Territorial Planning (AIAU). The Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles was founded under the name Institut Jean Béthune by the members of the Institut des Frères des écoles chrétiennes (the De La Salle Brothers), first in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in 1882, then in 1887 on rue des Palais in Schaerbeek . The École Saint-Luc Institut Supérieur d'Architecture

5320-477: Was founded in Mechlin in 1834, the Catholic University of Mechlin and moved to Leuven in 1835 that is frequently, but controversially, identified as a continuation of the older institution. In 1968 the Catholic University of Leuven split into the Dutch-language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , which stayed in Leuven, and the French-language Université catholique de Louvain , which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve in Wallonia , 30 km southeast of Brussels. Since

5396-401: Was founded there in 1938 as a non-profit association . The Dutch-speaking equivalent of LOCI, the KU Leuven 's Faculty of Architecture, is still located there, on its Sint-Lucas Brussel campus. Like the one in Tournai , the institute was then part of the series of Saint-Luc art schools established in the majority of major Belgian cities. In the meantime, a Saint-Luc centre was created in

5472-569: Was linguistically separated in 1964 into the Dutch-speaking Faculteit ingenieurswetenschappen and the francophone Faculté des sciences appliquées . Together with the other civil engineering students, architectural engineering students were the first to move to the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve following the split of the Catholic University of Louvain in 1968. In 1971, the French-speaking programmes of

5548-648: Was set up, which carried out research in architecture and urban planning in Tournai until it became integrated UCLouvain. Since 1987, the Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Liège and Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai had been grouped together within one same legal entity, the Saint-Luc de Wallonie Higher Institute of Architecture, a non-profit ASBL with notably Melchior Wathelet on its board of directors. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities

5624-789: Was suppressed under Joseph II , reopened in 1790, and was finally closed under the French Republic in 1797. In 1817, the State University of Louvain ( Université de l'Etat de Louvain ) was founded, which closed 15 August 1835. In 1834, the Catholic bishops of Belgium created the Catholic University of Belgium (Université catholique de Belgique) in Mechlin , also known as the Catholic University of Malines (Université catholique de Malines). A law passed on 27 September 1835 stated that there would be only one university funded by

5700-706: Was the transfer to Belgium, but very near the French border, of a boarding school founded in 1839 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Passy (now in Paris ), following the Combes Law of 1904 . The Institut Saint-Luc de Lille also had to close its doors and some of its assets were also transferred to Tournai, 25 km away. The Institute was legally founded as a non-profit ASBL in 1924. By 1936,

5776-563: Was then taken back by the brotherhood of Saint-Luc. Over time, the Institut des hautes études des communications sociales communication school (IHECS, now in the city of Brussels ) and the bases of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion cinema school (IAD, now in Louvain-la-Neuve ) were both founded at Saint-Luc Tournai. Similarly to Brussels, an organizing committee of the Institut St-Luc de Tournai had been made responsible for

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