10 Facts About Odile Decq

Odile Decq was born on 1955 and is a French architect, urban planner and academic.

Odile Decq is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq and the architecture school, Confluence Institute.

Odile Decq was told by the first year director that she would never become an architect because she did not possess the right spirit.

Odile Decq completed two years at Rennes, then moved to Paris, where she enrolled at La Villette.

Odile Decq began reading for Boudon, and later went on writing for him.

Odile Decq graduated in 1978 from Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette with a diploma in urban planning from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1979.

Odile Decq's projects have grown and continue to grow larger in size, complexity, and daring.

Since 1992, Odile Decq has been a professor at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris where she was elected head of the Department of Architecture in 2007.

Odile Decq has always been passionate about and a collector of contemporary art, and in 2007 she had her first exhibition at the Polaris gallery in Paris.

Odile Decq then seeks to reinvest her own research in architecture in art and gradually moves away from it while sometimes keeping a link.