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Resized Tangshan Museum © Odile Decq Jinri & Zhu Jie
Tangshan Museum. Photo: Odile Decq-Jinri and Zhu Jie.
10/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Location
Center for Architecture
1.5 LU

The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Odile Decq of Studio Odile Decq.

Odile Decq is a French architect and urban planner. International renown came in 1990 with her first major commission: La Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, France. Since then, she has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research. Being awarded The Golden Lion of Architecture during the Venice Biennale in 1996 acknowledged her early and unusual career. Other than just a style, an attitude or a process, Odile Decq’s work materializes a complete universe that embraces urban planning, architecture, design and art. Her multidisciplinary approach was recently recognized with the Jane Drew Prize in 2016, and she was honored with Architizer’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 for her pioneering work, but also her engagement and contribution to the debate on architecture.

Speaker:
Odile Decq, Founder, Studio Odile Decq

Moderator:
Cathleen McGuigan, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record

Odile Decq has been teaching architecture for the past 25 years. She has been invited to be a guest professor in prestigious universities such as the Bartlett (London), the Kunstakademie (Vienna & Düsseldorf), SCI-Arc (Los Angeles, CA), Columbia University (New York, NY), and more recently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA). In France, she was Head of l’École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris from 2007 to 2012. Following this experience, she created her own school in Lyon in 2014: the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, recently accredited by the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2018, she received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in recognition of her outstanding contributions in building science, design and education.

In 2018, Odile Decq opened a new exhibition about the Studio’s work (“Horizons”) at the House of Art in Ostrava (Czech Republic) and has been invited to create two installations (“Phantom’s Phantom”, “Diagonal 0”) during the 16th annual Biennale of Architecture in Venice. Amongst other projects, she is currently working on a residential tower in Barcelona (“Diagonal 0”); an office building in Paris (“Twist”); and an experimental house in China (“Flying Horse House”). Her most recent completed projects include Study Hall (Lyon, France, 2017); Le Cargo (Paris, France, 2016); La Résidence Saint-Ange (Seyssins, France, 2015); Fangshan Tangshan National Geopark Museum (Nanjing, China, 2015); GL Events Headquarters (Lyon, France, 2014); FRAC Bretagne (Rennes, France, 2012); Phantom: Opéra Garnier Restaurant (Paris, France, 2011) and the MACRO Contemporary Art Museum (Rome, Italy, 2010).

Due to event popularity, latecomers will be directed to Simulcast seating in the ground level gallery.

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Resized Tangshan Museum © Odile Decq Jinri & Zhu Jie
Tangshan Museum. Photo: Odile Decq-Jinri and Zhu Jie.
10/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Location
Center for Architecture
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