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2. PERSONALITIES2.1. Odile DecqMAISON&OBJET 2013, designer of the yearOdileDECQBenoitCORNETTEArchitects and urban planners – DPLG (state-qualified) – DESS (Master's) IEP PARISOdile Decq set up her architecture office immediately after graduating from La Villette in1978, while simultaneously studying at Sciences Politiques Paris where she completed apost-graduate diploma in Urban Planning in 1979.After teaming up with Benoît Cornette in the mid-1980s, international recognition camevery soon and, in 1990, she received her first major commission – the Banque Populaire del’Ouest in Rennes. The numerous prizes and publications which accompanied theconstruction of this building underlined the emergence of a new hope in architecturedirectly born from the punk rebellion that was turning old conventions upside down. Byquestioning concepts of commission, use, matter, body, technique, and taste, the OdileDecq Benoît Cornette (ODBC) agency's architecture offers a paradoxical perspective, bothtender and severe, on our world. In 1996 the agency's innovative work was awarded a Liond’Or at the 6th Venice Biennale of Architecture. As the sole principal of ODBC since BenoîtCornette's death in 1998, Odile Decq has been faithful to her militant attitude whilediversifying and radicalising her research.She recently completed the MACRO (Museum for Contemporary Art in Rome) in 2010, therestaurant in Opera Garnier in Paris in 2011, and the FRAC (Contemporary Art Museum) inRennes, Brittany, in 2012.Title : Odile Decq, MAISON&OBJET 2013designer of the yearLegend : portraitShow : MAISON&OBJETCopyright : Markus Deutschmannwww.maison-objet-press.com 7/70