Occasionally, architects also write their memoirs. Take Victor Horta, for example, or Henry Van de Velde, who wrote no fewer than three versions of his memoirs. Le Corbusier did not write memoirs, but in 1943 he did publish *Entretien avec les étudiants des écoles d’architecture*.

In 2015 and 2016, architecture students from the Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta took the opposite approach: as part of the htc (Histoire, Théorie, Critique) master’s seminar, they visited a generation of Belgian architects who worked in Brussels and Wallonia after the Second World War, and for whom practice took precedence over everything else. Among them were Bruno Albert, Lucien Jacques Baucher, Albert Bontridder, Constantin Brodzki, Jean Englebert, Emile-José Fettweis, Freddy Gallez, Marcel Goldstein, André Jacqmain, Lucien Kroll and Nicolas Simon, whose interviews have now been published.