In the history and development of architectural education in French-speaking Belgium, 2010—the year in which the Higher Institutes of Architecture (ISA) became part of the universities—marked a turning point. The seven ‘former’ ISAs merged with four universities: UCLouvain, ULB, ULiège and UMONS. Adopting strategies that sometimes differed, each of these universities established a new faculty within its structure to give substance to this integration.

Ten years on, amid a mix of enthusiasm and disappointment, we can now assess the resulting changes in education. To analyse this, we would need to consider the societal role of architecture schools, the specific nature of project-based teaching and research, the gradual growth of international exchanges, the degree and the practice of the profession in our country… But it would obviously be too ambitious to address all these points in this short publication, especially as they have varied according to the host institutions.