LUCA School of Arts

Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaarbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is allegedly still the only independent art school in Flanders. Originally, it was occupying a variety of old houses, which were bought one by one during the years by Sint-Lukas and transformed, as good as possible, to house educational functions. The Hogeschool provides exclusively art-related university-level higher education, hence the name. It houses around 1,000 students across its academic provision, and can trace its roots back to the first foundation of a Sint-Lukas art school in 1880.