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25 Articles Architecture that reflects the capacity for innovation A constantly-evolving society’s capacities to adapt and assert itself are best re- flected in its architecture. Style, beauty, the expression of tastes and tendencies, open-mindedness with regards to various trends and local expertise based on the latest technological knowledge are a vital part of day-to-day strategic planning. The OAI has been committed to pro- moting architectural quality in terms of both raising awareness and training all of the players involved in the construc- tion sector for over 25 years. The Guide Références and the Festival des cabanes , aimed at young people, and even the Prix du Maître d’Ouvrage contracting authori- ty prize (Bauhärepräis), have embedded architectural quality in most people’s minds. Architecture is a way of asserting the identities of communities that share a common living space. The OAI has managed to bring together the creative vanguard of the country’s cultural assets and successfully made this a symbol of positioning on the international stage. A PhD in history at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Robert L. Philippart is also a scientific collaborator with the Institute of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (UCL). His research and publications focus on urban history, architecture, social history and Luxembourgish engineering in China. After al- most three decades as director/ambassador at the National Tourist Office, and then at Luxembourg for Tourism, he was appointed at the end of 2017 Unesco Site Manager at the Ministry of Culture.