Roland Castro

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Roland Castro (16 October 1940 – 9 March 2023) was a French architect and political activist. Roland Castro was born in Limoges on 16 October 1940. By the end of 1966 he was a member of the editorial committee of Melp!, the École Normale Supérieure student association's review, along with Jacques Barda, Hubert Tonka, Pierre Granveaud and Antoine Grumbach. Melp! helped to articulate the dissatisfaction of students in the lead-up to the protests of 1968. His thinking integrates political ideas with urban architecture. He belonged to the concrete utopia movement, which he described as "an attempt to rebuild and renovate politics around revolutionary values." He is also the father of Elizabeth Castro, alias Zazon, comedian and actress. From 2008 to 2009, Roland Castro was appointed by the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy to lead a multidisciplinary team on the future of Greater Paris. He argued for the implementation of symbolic high places of the republic and of culture, and to restore intensity and beauty to the "suburbs". Castro died in Paris on 9 March 2023, at the age of 82.