Roland Castro (born 16 October 1940) is a French architect and political activist. Biography Roland Castro was born on 16 October 1940 in Limoges. 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 belongs to the concrete utopia movement, which he describes 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 to lead a multidisciplinary team on the future of Greater Paris. He argues for the implementation of symbolic high places of the republic and of culture, and to restore intensity and beauty to the "suburbs". Architectural accomplishments Many renovations by remodeling of large structures Trades Council of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) Family housing in Noisy-le-Grand Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard ( UTBM ) National Center for the comics and images (CNBDI) in Angoulême Employed by Charles Pasqua to renovate the cities of the Hauts-de-Seine (as an architect). Media center, hotel and housing, 115 rue de Bagnolet, Paris 20. 2008-2009: Participation in the consultation "Le Grand Pari(s) de l’agglomération parisienne" Political engagement Roland Castro has had a political career in various left movements: Activist in the Union of Communist Students and the French Communist Party, from which he was expelled in 1965. He joined the Union des jeunesses communistes marxistes-léninistes the following year. Maoist in the 1970s, in the movement Vive le Communisme (1968), which soon after transformed itself into Vive la révolution (VLR), which he cofounded with Tiennot Grumbach. After the dissolution of VLR in 1971, he met Lacan and began a psychoanalysis with him that lasted seven years. As a Mitterrandist in 1981, he created a structure of response and reflection on the suburbs called Banlieues 89. Journal Légende du siècle : la conspiration des égos (Legend of the century: the conspiracy of egos) with Jean-Paul Dollé, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec and Léon Schwartzenberg. Five issues were published between 1987 and 1992. Resigned from the Socialist Party on the day that Bernard Tapie entered the government. Back to the CPF under Robert Hue,