On Thursday, April 5, 2018, at 3:30 PM, a lecture by Odile Decq, a globally recognized and frequently awarded French architect, urban planner, and academic educator, will take place at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava. She advocates an uncompromising stance in the search for solutions. In 1996, she received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The originality of her work includes not only a remarkable creative handwriting, exploratory attitudes, and an inexhaustible search process, but her work can also be described as a materialized universal space that encompasses urban planning, architecture, design, and art in one. Her multidisciplinary approach was recognized with the “Jane Drew Prize” in 2016, among others. A year later, she received a highly prestigious international award from Architizer, a global architectural portal. Odile Decq has served as a professor at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris since 1992, where she was elected head of the Department of Architecture in 2007. She left in 2012 and subsequently built and founded her own school in Lyon named Institut Confluence for Innovation and Creative Strategy in Architecture. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Architecture Cabinet, the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, and the Studio Odile Decq from Paris and is held as part of the tenth edition of the international festival of architecture, design, and art ARCHIKULTURA 2018. The exhibition will run from April 6 to June 3, 2018 (opening on April 5, 2018, at 5:00 PM) A guided tour of the exhibition by Studio Odile DECQ will take place on Thursday, April 5, 2018, at 6:30 PM. Admission is free.