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Odile Decq – Space, freedom and body.
Odile Decq – Space, freedom and body.
Odile Decq’s aesthetic is both contrast and continuity.
Her mission is to find continuity into a context.
Her work is joyful, sensual, and intuitive.
Decq’s biggest wish is to reintroduce architecture as a central core in the world.
“In the Académie des Beaux-Arts teaches that architecture is the mother of all arts, but in my opinion it is much more than that.
It goes beyond designing objects, for it is also about sociology, politics, geography, economics, law etc..
We have to bring these disciplines together into a synthesis that addresses all the relevant issues.
This synthesis generates an idea, and this idea is the project.
The idea is more than the building, because it deals with all the scales involved from the smallest details to the urban space”.
Odile Decq is a rebel because it is in her nature.
The FIAC 2010 at Grand Palais, In Paris, France on October 22nd, 2010 – Anish Kapoor work, Odile Decq /Getty Images/
Since more than 30 years she lives in the middle of the centre in Paris.
Her studio is a former workshop from 18th century and it was a place for copper tubes.
On the other side Mrs. Decq thinks that the architecture is always thinking about future and the idea is that the project has to be efficient for tomorrow.
“An architect never builds for today, he builds for the future. Therefore architecture is one of the few disciplines that can help to invent the world of tomorrow”.
Famous architect doesn’t like static places because she is curious how the body will feel in the place.
One of the main question how to liberate body in the space and to express free movement.
Since Odile Decq was young her favorite color is black.
“Black is a nice, neutral colour.
At the same time black, as the French artist Pierre Soulages said, is the light. It creates fantastic contrasts when you put something in front of a black wall.
Red acts as a wonderful contrast to black.
I don’t use this contrast everywhere and when I do use it it’s not always in the same way, but it is true that I am fond of applying it.”
One of her favorite project is MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
Visitors attend the opening of the new Macro wing, designed by architect Odile Decq, on December 4, 2010 in Rome, Italy. The Museum of Conteporary Art of Rome will be open to the public from December 5, 2010. /Getty Images/
In the building is built the idea of the continuity of the city.
Her design crowns the existing building, the old Peroni beer brewery, with a roof terrace that gives visitors the chance to see the city from a new viewpoint.
“ I certainly want people to be surprised and to have fun.
Life is so complicated that I want them to forget about the hardship of it, and enjoy themselves when they happen to be in my buildings.
I want them to feel comfortable, not as an escape from reality, as in a dream, but to experience a suspension of time.”
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