What if modernity had not always been about rupture?

In this episode of Com d’Archi, I take you through the streets of Paris to encounter a discreet yet essential architect: Michel Roux-Spitz.

Trained at the Beaux-Arts and winner of the Prix de Rome, he developed an architecture of measure, grounded in repetition, order, and a certain idea of continuity. A modernity without manifesto, deeply constructed.

Through his white façades, his “Série blanche,” and his role in post-war reconstruction, Roux-Spitz embodies another path:

that of an architecture which does not seek to break away, but to endure.

In this episode, I also offer a more contemporary perspective:

how can we think today about transmission, rigor, and the dissemination of knowledge in an age of massive content circulation?

A personal reflection, shaped by the rediscovery of a key monograph (Michel Roux-Spitz architecte 1888–1957, Mardaga, 1983), and by my own journey as an architectural historian.

Anne-Charlotte

🎙️ An episode about continuity, rigor… and the enduring necessity to hold firm.

Audio: comdarchipodcast / This English version was generated using AI with voice cloning, inspiration of the speakers’ timbre (Anne-Charlotte)

Teaser image © [La Pablote], via Wikimedia Commons, licence CC BY-SA : Michel Roux-Spitz portrait.

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