Odile Decq

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette created Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architects Urbanistes in 1985. Soon after Benoit Cornette died in a car crash, but the firm´s name and spirit carried forward with Odile’s work constantly reaching new levels of innovation.
This book is a visually striking interplay of 300 images and plans with fantastic colors and layouts; a world mixed with red and black, flame and darkness, violence and peace by the French architect and free radical, Odile. This is an exciting presentation of her work and stories told by friends and other prominent architects in 348 pages full of desire for innovation and progress.
“An inordinate desire to seek the horizon is present in the architecture that I create. In the same way, I love single malt whisky, with the merest hint of peat. There is in my architecture something of the nature of whisky and of the succession of sensations, both subtle and explosive.” Odile Decq


During the last ten years, Odile's work has become more personal and reached a new level of innovation and validity; an emancipation has taken place that has made her work stronger than ever.

When you see her work within the international context, she is one of the most important and most highly recognized creative architects today; she is one of the key architects that have revitalized and contributed to our present contemporary architectural history and culture.