Odile Decq studied architecture at the universities of Rennes and Paris. She was one of the few female architects who received the most prestigious awards in her profession, from the Golden Lion to the Venice Biennale in 1996 to the recent Designer of the year at the Salon Maison & Objet 2013. She is internationally known for having always been joke to express, in this world of men, his proteiform and sensory vision that makes the lines of his discipline move and that he called "Hypertension", understood as the fact that a space should bring us to move, it puts us "live".