E17: Invent the Future

Imagine you study architecture and your professors never show up, because it’s the early 70s and they are on strike. What would be the best thing to do after graduating and not knowing anything about architecture? Right: Start your own office and jump into work. Unbelievable? Odile Decq did exactly that. She startet her journey with passion and became famous and influential since the 90s. Since 30 years she is a professor, and since 2014 she is running her own Architecture School. What her students need to learn and what sailing and designing have in common, she reveals in this episode.