Publications and Useful Resources

The UMONS libraries are primarily for the UMONS community and are open to all students, researchers and the generally curious. The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning has its own specialised library at 88 Rue d’Havré.

On this page you will find access to a range of information available for consultation and/or downloading. The tabs below take you directly to useful publications and resources, such as dissertations and theses held in the Library of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Articles and scientific publications in the field of architecture listed in the Institutional Repository can also be consulted.

Lastly, you will find a number of summary works highlighting the work of our students, as well as other publications representative of what is being studied at our faculty.

The dissertation is the culmination of the Master’s degree in Architecture, specialising in either Construction or Urban Planning. This personal written work is designed to develop and illustrate the student’s ability to explore, analyse and summarise a subject directly related to architecture. Regular meetings with the supervisor(s) enable the progress of the work to be assessed. The dissertation culminates in a twenty-minute presentation on the subject studied, followed by a question and answer session in front of a panel of judges.

Since 1951, the Library of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning has been collecting student dissertations. A description of the dissertations produced by the students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning and how to consult them is available in the Library Catalogue.

The doctorate is the third cycle of university studies leading to the academic title of Doctor. It consists of a combination of research work and personalised training that enables students to acquire advanced scientific knowledge in their field, as well as a wide range of cross-disciplinary skills. The Doctorate is conferred by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning following the presentation of a doctoral thesis.

A description of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning’s doctoral students’ theses and how to consult them is available in the Library Catalogue.

The aim of the Institutional Repository is to combine all the publications of the scientific community of the University of Mons.

UMONS is developing an active Open Access policy. Researchers submit their articles to the institutional repository and, unless the publisher advises otherwise, are invited to publish them in Open Access, which is the free availability of scientific publications on the public Internet. It allows anyone to read, download, copy, print and transmit the content of these digital works.

The UMONS digital library, PHENIX, offers free access to the documentary heritage of the University of Mons.

Databases in the field of Architecture and Construction are also available. You can also discover many electronic periodicals relating to Architecture from Full Text Finder.

Our publications

Other publications

Conception Paramétrique avec Rhino et Grasshopper

Published 25 february 2021 – Editions Eyrolles – ISBN 978-2-212-67827-7

After presenting the fundamentals of parametric design, this book turns to the practical application of Rhino CAD software and its integrated Grasshopper plug-in, using a range of tools (geometric modelling, surface processing, simulation of physical phenomena, optimisation of urban data, etc.).

Mohamed-Anis Gallas is an architect with a doctorate in architectural sciences. He is a lecturer responsible for teaching and research in the field of parametric architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Mons. He co-authored the book with Jean-Pierre Couwenbergh, a civil engineer and architect with a doctorate in information and communication sciences, who teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning at the University of Leuven.
Guide Architecture moderne et contemporaine 1885-2015
Guide architecture moderne et contemporaine 1885-2015 Mons & Cœur du Hainaut

Published 2015 – Editions Mardaga – ISBN 978-2-8047-0242-7

This guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Mons & Cœur du Hainaut invites you to take a different look at architecture through more than 250 projects, illustrated with plans and located on maps, commented on by more than 40 authors and photographed by Olivier Cornil. These projects are the fruit of modernity revisited by architects in every era, from Art Nouveau to the present day, ranging from modest programmes to large-scale projects, from private commissions to public buildings. It was produced in partnership with the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Mons, under the direction of Lamya Ben Djaffar and Isabelle De Smet.

Lamya Ben Djaffar is a historian in charge of the policy of integrating works of art and cultural dissemination and promotion at the Architecture Unit of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Isabelle De Smet is an architect with a doctorate in the Art of Building and Urban Planning from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Mons.