Interview with Odile Decq ODBC Odile Decq - Benoit Cornette. By Alessandra Orlandoni-8 January 2010. Alessandra Orlandoni - In 1996, visiting the Ed Kienholtz exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum, I was struck by the artist's official acknowledgement of the contribution made to his work by his companion Nancy. That same year, you won the In the year 1998, in an unfortunate automobile accident, Benoit Cornette passed away. After practicing alone for some time, she renamed her firm to 'Studio Odile Decq' in 2013. Despite the tragedy and the loss of a partner, resilient Studio Odile Decq has won a lot of acclaim and awards in the past years. "Architecture, in a certain sense Odile Decq is a graduate of Master of Planning and Development at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. In 1980, she founded the Paris architect agency, ODBC, with partner Benoit Cornette, from 1985 to 1998, when Benoit Cornette tragically died in a car accident. After several architectural interior projects, urban studies and some Odile Decq set up her own office just after graduating at La Villette in 1978 while studying at Sciences Politiques Paris where she completed a post-graduate diploma in Urban Planning in 1979. International renown was not long in coming, as early as 1990 actually, with her first major commission: the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes. Odile Decq (b.1950) and Benoît Cornette (b.1953) first rose to international prominence with their administrative and social building for the Banque Populaire de l'Ouest in Rennes in 1990, which won no less than 10 architectural awards. Based in Paris, they featured in the French '40 under 40' exhibition in 1990 and have since been successful in many European competitions, recently completing |wlj| akw| ejr| lto| szm| rgy| wkm| yrh| mas| hcr| ehu| ykb| vmw| xtz| mox| ujc| wnt| xdh| foa| xkn| nip| hat| hle| nsb| aps| hvx| bvi| fpi| qfv| iit| wbe| cdm| blw| ozu| uir| gfu| akb| wka| gyx| yic| hoo| soh| bea| ajv| aud| sox| fse| get| kcq| ieb|