Philippe Samyn

Philippe Samyn started his education in Ghent, before moving to Brussels with his family. He was interested in art, architecture, sciences and technology from an early age.

He holds a degree in civil engineering from Brussels Free University (ULB) in 1971, a Master of Sciences in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 1973, a degree in urban planning from the ULB (1973), a postgraduate in management from the Solvay Business School (1985). He became Doctor of Applied sciences at the University of Liège in 1999.

He begins his consultant activity as an architect and engineer in 1972 and founds Philippe Samyn and Partners in 1980. He advocates the concept of “efficiency”: a rational use of materials’ properties. His approach is therefore opposed to those producing structures that are expensive, fragile or use excess material.[1] His technical research was thus awarded a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2008[2].

His archives are regularly transferred and available for consultation:

• Hand-written, graphic and iconographic documents and models are at the National Royal Archives of Belgium.
• Pictures and original films are at the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium.

Philippe Samyn is Commander of the Order of Léopold and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. He is personally ennobled with the grant of hereditary nobility to Knighthood by HM King Albert II of Belgium on 13 July 2012. His motto is "Reperire, Invenire, Creare".

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  Aula Magna, UCLouvain's biggest auditorium, Louvain-la-Neuve
  1993 – Psychiatric Clinic "Sans Souci", Brussels, Belgium
• 2001 – UCLouvain Aula Magna, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
• 2008 – "Vesuvio-Est" railway station, Striano, Italy
• 2009 – Studio for the painter Erik Salvesen,[3] Ekenäs, Finland
• 2009 – Faculty of Applied Science, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• 2010 – Lujiazhi cultural creativity garden, reception hall, large auditorium and hotel, Zhoushan, China
• 2014 – Social housing at rue de l'Olivier,[4] Schaerbeek, Belgium
• 2015 – European Space Agency of Redu, Belgium
• 2015 – Namur Province House of Culture, Namur, Belgium
• 2017 – Namur Province Administration House, Namur, Belgium
• 2017 – "M'as-tu vu" square, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
• 2017 – Arctic Circle theater, Rovaniemi, Finland
• 2017 – Europa Building (Council of the European Union and European Council), Brussels, Belgium
• 2018 – Steel tent for a multipurpose public space in Avilés, Spain
• 2018 – Cash Centre, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

• Aula Magna (UCLouvain)
• Europa building
• University of Liège

• official website of Philippe Samyn and Partners