Kevin Roche
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Kevin Roche (b. June 14, 1922 in Dublin, Ireland) is a late-twentieth-century corporate architect famous for his creative work with glass.
Roche immigrated to the US in 1948, studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and later worked for Eero Saarinen. When Saarinen died in 1961, Roche completed ten major unfinished Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the expressionistic TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport in New York, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, the strictly modern John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and CBS Headquarters in New York City. In 1966 Roche formed a partnership with civil engineer John Dinkeloo.
Roche's first major independent design was the concrete Oakland Museum of California, designed as a complex of three museum buildings, interrelated terraces, and roof gardens. Dinkeloo died in 1981.
Roche was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1982.
Important works include:
- National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland
- Quincy Market modern, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ford Foundation, New York City (1967), with its dramatic 12-story jungle atrium
Photo (http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/ford/index.htm)
- the Columbus, Indiana Post Office (1969)
- the Power Center for the Performing Arts, University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1981)
- United Nations Plaza Hotel, New York City
- Many buildings on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.