Raf De Saeger, professor at the Faculty of Architecture, received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania) on 9 November 2015 and is awarded the academic degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
“The Senate of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, gathered in the extraordinary meeting, on the 30th of September 2015, Prof. dr. arch. Romulus Zamfir, approved by the Faculty Council, by the Rector of the University, Prof. dr.eng Aurel Vlaicu and by the Permanent Commision of the Senate, in charge with awarding honorary titles, appreciating your activity and excellent collaboration with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, especially with the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, as member of the Diploma juries, as key-note speaker at “Questions” International Workshop, and through your generous donation of books to our library, as well as through your professional and academic excellence, your remarkable contribution in the field of architectural research and your international fame, has unanimously decided to award you the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca”
Raf De Saeger studied at Sint-Lucas Architecture Brussels, at the Norsk Institut i Roma, the Institute for Architekturgeschichte und -Theory, Universität Köln and The Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Oslo (AHO).
He received the AHO’s PhD (1985) with the thesis “Wooden Architecture. Identity and Structure’. This was the first doctorate to be awarded at the AHO.
In 2004 he was knighted by the King of Norway and in 2006 he was elected as member of ‘Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab’ Trondheim.
He also founded the Institute of Nordic Masters. This institute would provide a platform for Nordic cultural movements in theater, literature, visual arts, music, architecture, …
In addition to his teaching and research assignments as a professor within the Faculty of Architecture in the international master programs, and at institutions abroad, Raf De Saeger is also involved in international forensic research with a specialization in the development of the spatio-psycho symbolic structures from which certain underlying behavior profiles can be defined.