Roland Castro

Sponsor of the 16th UNESCO Sound Week Architect, co-founder of the Castro Denisso Associés studio.
After studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Roland Castro, a leading figure in the May 1968 movement, took part in the first protests against the academic system.
In 1983, he was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to work with Michel Cantal-Dupart on the Banlieue 89 project, the first Grand Paris project.
In 1986, he was appointed Delegate for the Renovation of the Suburbs.
This was followed by a series of cultural and livable district projects, including the Musée international de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, the Tour penchée in Sévenans, the Beffroi in Douchy-les-Mines, and major district remodeling projects in Lorient, La Caravelle in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Douchy–les-Mines, La Duchère in Lyon… In 2007, he was a prizewinner in the international consultation on the Grand Paris project, which gave rise to a number of ideas in the form of “Chemins de l’Urbanité”, the most emblematic of which is the tower being built in Aubervilliers, Habiter le ciel, a vertical village with shared gardens every four floors.
Urbanity is the cement of his project for a multi-polar Greater Paris, in an area twenty times the size of Paris.