(F)	"Answering the question of desire by bringing pleasure" -a programme for present-day architecture that Odile Decq readily refers to by quoting the line from Paul Virilio. Since 1985, Decq & Cornette have been producing an architecture where the incorporation of movement creates tension and complexity in the perception of space, challenging the place of the body in space and architecture. So no project is ever the outcome of a deliberate approach, with the imposition of a form or style. The primary work still involves a re-programming and a re-definition of the programme trying to get rid of all the conformist features of the commission. The various elements and components which provide the apparent unity of the architecture are analysed one by one, and factored into an order that is no longer defined by spatiality; they are subject to a certain number of operations which they pinpoint : inversion, hypertrophy, displacement, shift, deformation, fragmentation... Odile Decq also exercises a tandem profession, teaching, mainly at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.
Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Decq (Odile) (1955), Cornette (Benoît) (1953-1998)
• "Quatre maisons dans la forge" Cureghem, Belgique, 2001