In 1896, Émile Lambot became the first person to graduate with a degree in architecture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. A brilliant student, he would devote his career to teaching architecture until the day before his death. He designed ten buildings, mostly for private clients, whose styles oscillate between Art Nouveau and Historicism. He deftly applied the principles of sobriety, geometry and rationalism to his designs, in a similar vein to the painter Émile Fabry (1902).