(b Seville, 7 Dec 1938). Belgian architect, urban planner, historian and teacher. He graduated in architecture in 1964 and until 1967 lived in the USA, where he worked at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and with Paolo Soleri in Scottsdale, AZ. On his return to Brussels, he began to teach urban planning at the Institut Supérieur des Arts Decoratifs de la Cambre (now the Ecole N. Sup. A. Visuels), Brussels; an ardent promoter of urban reconstruction in Europe, he favoured alternative approaches in support of the preservation of traditional urban structures. In 1969 he founded the Archives d’Architecture Moderne in Brussels, a research and conservation centre and a publishing house specializing in the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries; in 1975 he became editor of the journal Archives d’architecture moderne, which discusses mostly classical and vernacular architectural projects. A friend of Léon Krier, Culot published a number of works with him, such as Architecture rationnelle (1978) and Albert Speer (1985), and they worked together on the Südliche-Friedrichstadt project for the Internationale Bauaustellung (IBA 1981) in Berlin. In 1980 Culot was invited to Paris to become Director of the Archives and History Department of the Institut Français d’Architecture, where he set up a centre for the conservation of architects’ archives. He created and directed collections devoted to French towns, including Toulouse and Amiens, and to architects, including Henri Sauvage and Louis Bonnier. At the same time he opened the Musée des Archives d’Architecture Moderne in Brussels (1984), which gathered together the archives of the most important Belgian architects since the end of the 19th century. In 1986 he became President of the Fondation pour l’Architecture, created by Philippe Rotthier to give the capital of Europe a site for architectural exhibitions and debate.