Odile Decq
| Architectural design | |
| Industry | Architecture & Urbanism |
| Predecessor | Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architectes Urbanistes (until 2013) [1] |
| Founded | 1978 [2] |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Owner | Odile Decq |
| Website | http://www.odiledecq.com |
Odile Decq (18 July 1955, Laval) is an award-winning French architect and academic. She is the director of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq, previously known as Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architectes Urbanistes or ODBC Architectes.[3][4]
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Biography
After graduating in architecture in 1978, Decq received a diploma in urbanism and planning from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris in 1979. After running her own agency for a number of years, she created a partnership with Benoît Cornette in 1985, establishing the architecture firm ODBC. The two buildings they completed for the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes (1990) brought them numerous awards and international recognition. Other notable projects were social housing buildings in Paris and a motorway bridge for the A14 at Nanterre, which included a motorway management centre suspended underneath the bridge.[5] Cornette died in a road accident in 1998 in which Decq was also injured.[6]
Decq won the competition for an expansion to Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001. In 2004, she was also successful in receiving a commission for the Regional Contemporary Art Fund building in Rennes. She also designed the restaurant L'Opéra at Opera Garnier[7] in Paris, in 2011. [8][9]
In the early 1990s Decq taught at the Bartlett.[10] Since 1992, Odile Decq has been a professor at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris where she was elected head of the Department of Architecture in 2007.[9] By 2015, she opened her own school called "Confluence" in Lyon.[11][12]
Awards
The architecture firm ODBC received the Golden Lion Award for their contributions to architecture at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1996.[8]
Odile Decq became a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur in 2003 and received the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007.[8]
She received an honorary doctorate from Laval University, Quebec in June 2015.[13]
She was awarded the 2016 Jane Drew Prize by the Architects' Journal. This award honours a person showing innovation, diversity and inclusiveness in architecture.[14]
References
- ↑ "Maison & Objet Interview 2013", Maison&Objet. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ↑ "Odile Decq Benoît Cornette - ODBC : Information + Images", e-architect. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ↑ "awards | Studio Odile Decq", awards | Studio Odile Decq. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ↑ Odile Decq (2007 Architecture & Journalism) ISBN 988-99251-6-8. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ↑ "Odile Decq, Benoît Cornette, Architectes, Urbanistes", Euran. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ↑ http://www.liberation.fr/culture/1998/11/16/mort-de-l-architecte-benoit-cornette_251073
- ↑ "L'Opera Restaurant - Paris"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Odile Decq Benoît Cornette - ODBC : Information + Images", e-architect. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Decq (Odile)", Bernard Chauveau: Editeur. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
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- ↑ https://www.arc.ulaval.ca/actualites/doctorat-honorifique-a-odile-decq-architecte.html
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Documentaries
- Odile Decq at work (dir. Martine Gonthié, 52 minutes, 2009)
