I set up a new school in architecture in France because I was very frustrated when I was directing the former school where I was for twenty years and I directed it for five years because I tried to make it evolving a lot and I made it evolving a lot but at the end I was blocked by the old teachers, by the old system, not by the ministry but by the old teacher, by the permanent people who didn't want to be moved or checked too much.

I resigned and I decided the same day as my resignation to establish a new school, because I said, OK, I didn't went too far away, too far, and I want to now go in what I believe. And so I worked with some friends from this former school for two years. We did a lot of meetings to establish a school of architecture, and at the very beginning we were thinking, I was also thinking, because I was really thinking about that, about establishing a school of architecture. But step by step, by reading, by travelling, going everywhere, having a lot of lectures everywhere in the world, as I do for twenty years, more than twenty years now, but discussing with people saying, OK, I want to establish a new school of architecture, and discussing with all the people around the world about that, I discovered that many people wanted to change and make evolving the studies in architecture. Many people were dreaming about that, but nobody did it. So I was thinking, I have to understand what is not so efficient today in studies in architecture.