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The two buildings they completed for the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes (1990) brought them numerous awards and international recognition.
The two buildings they completed for the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes (1990) brought them numerous awards and international recognition.
She is the director of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq, previously known as Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architectes Urbanistes or ODBC Architectes. After graduating in architecture in 1978, Decq received a diploma in urbanism and planning from the Institut d"études politiques in Paris in 1979. 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.
Cornette died in a road accident in 1998 in which Decq was also injured.
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 in Paris, in 2011.
In the early 1990s Decq taught at the Bartlett. 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.
By 2015, she opened her own school called "Confluence" in Lyons.
Odile Decq at work (director Martine Gonthié, 52 minutes, 2009).
The architecture firm ODBC received the Golden Lion Award for their contributions to architecture at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1996. Odile Decq became a Chevalier of the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur in 2003 and received the International Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007. She received an honorary doctorate from Laval University, Quebec in June 2015. She was awarded the 2016 Jane Drew Prize by the Architects" Journal. This award honours a person showing innovation, diversity and inclusiveness in architecture.
