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Among other missions, Francis Metzger worked on the Autrique house and on the Central Station, but also in the frame of the works of the contemporaries of Victor Horta, his masters, his peers, his heirs...  In the frame of the summer school organised by the faculty of architecture La Cambre Horta of the ULB, the brussels architect delivers a conference, to be followed on line on September 2nd. Info and free registration here.

Academic year of the Executive Master in Architectural Heritage (ULB-VUB): François Chatillon is the honour Guest. On this occasion, the chief architect of the historical monuments of France and partner of Ma² for the renovation of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, gives a lecture about the renovation of the buildings related to the heritage.

Bourgeois lecture hall – La Cambre Horta ULB – A conference of Michel Goutal on the restoration of the Cavrois Villa, followed by a debate of Francis Metzger (architect of the Villa Empain restoration) and Eric Hennaut (art historian and member of the Board of the Van Buuren House).

“Auditoire Bourgeois” – La Cambre Horta ULB. A conference by Sarah McKinnon, head of the project of the reconstruction of the Glasgow School of Art, and of Francis Metzger who will present the reconstruction of Charle-Albert Castle that remained abandoned for a long time after two successive fires. 

As part of the cycle of lectures “The Art of Building Iron - The Whole Matter of Iron” set up by “l'Office du Patrimoine et des Sites de l'Etat de Genève”, an intervention of Francis Metzger in the Sicli Pavillon.

A lecture-type course of Francis Metzger at the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, on the philosophical and methodological approach of restoration.