Eamonn Kevin Roche (June 14, 1922 – March 1, 2019) was an Irish-born American
Pritzker Prize-winning architect. He was responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include eight museums, 38
corporate headquarters, seven
research facilities,
performing arts center
Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences), often abbreviated as PAC, is used to refer to:
* A multi-use performance space that is intended for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre.
:The ...
s, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, and thereafter designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the reopened American and Islamic wings.
Born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
and a graduate from
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
, Roche went to the United States to study with
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has prog ...
. In the U.S., he became the principal designer for
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer noted for his wide-ranging array of designs for buildings and monuments. Saarinen is best known for designing the General Motors ...
, and opened his own architectural firm in 1967.
Among other awards, Roche received the Pritzker in 1982, the Gold Medal Award from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headqu ...
in 1990, and the
AIA Gold Medal
The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."
It is the Ins ...
in 1993.
Biography
Born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
, but raised in
Mitchelstown
Mitchelstown () is a town in County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 3,740. Mitchelstown is situated in the valley to the south of the Galtee Mountains, 12 km south-west of the Mitchelstown Caves, 28 km from Cahir, 50 ...
,
County Cork
County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns a ...
, Roche attended
Rockwell College
Rockwell College ( ga, Coláiste Charraig an Tobair), founded in 1864, is a voluntary day and boarding Catholic secondary school near Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.
The school has a rugby tradition and has won the Munster Schools S ...
and graduated from
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
in 1945. He then worked with
Michael Scott from 1945 to 1946. From summer to fall of 1946, he worked with
Maxwell Fry in London. In 1947, he applied for graduate studies at
Harvard,
Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
, and the Illinois Institute of Technology and was accepted at all three institutions, and left Ireland in 1948 to study under
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has prog ...
.
In 1949, he worked at the planning office for the
United Nations Headquarters
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building in New York City. In 1950, he joined the firm of
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (, ; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer noted for his wide-ranging array of designs for buildings and monuments. Saarinen is best known for designing the General Motors ...
and Associates.
His future partner,
John Dinkeloo
Roche-Dinkeloo, otherwise known as Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC (KRJDA), is an architectural firm based in Hamden, Connecticut founded in 1966.
About
The principal designers were 1982 Pritzker Prize laureate Kevin Roche (June 19 ...
(1918-1991), joined the firm in 1951 and this was also where Roche met his wife Jane. In 1954, he became the Principal Design Associate to Saarinen and assisted him on all projects from that time until Saarinen's death in September 1961.
In 1966, Roche and Dinkeloo formed
Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates and completed Saarinen's projects. They completed 12 major unfinished Saarinen builds, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the
Gateway Arch
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, the expressionistic
TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center, also known as the Trans World Flight Center, is an airport terminal and hotel complex at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The original terminal building, or head house, operated as a terminal ...
at
JFK International Airport
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in
New York City
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,
Dulles International Airport
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outside
Washington, DC
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, the strictly modern
John Deere Headquarters in
Moline, Illinois
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, and the
CBS Headquarters building in
New York City
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.
Following this, Roche and Dinkeloo's first major commission was the
Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cal ...
, a complex for the art, natural history, and cultural history of California with a design featuring interrelated terraces and roof gardens. The city was planning a monumental building to house natural history, technology, and art, and Roche provided a unique concept: a building that is a series of low-level concrete structures covering a four block area, on three levels, the terrace of each level forming the roof of the one below, i.e. a museum (in three sections) with a park on its roof. This kind of innovative solution went on to become Roche's trademark.
This project was followed by the equally highly acclaimed
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice (also known as 321 East 42nd Street, 320 East 43rd Street, or the Ford Foundation Building) is a 12-story office building in East Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Designed by architect Kevin Ro ...
in New York City, considered the first large-scale architectural building in the U.S. to devote a substantial portion of its space to horticultural pursuits. Its famous atrium was designed with the notion of having urban green-space accessible to all and is an early example of the application of
environmental psychology
Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. Environmental Psychol ...
in architecture. The building was recognized in 1968 by ''
Architectural Record
''Architectural Record'' is a US-based monthly magazine dedicated to architecture and interior design. "The Record," as it is sometimes colloquially referred to, is widely-recognized as an important historical record of the unfolding debates in a ...
'' as "a new kind of urban space".
The acclaim that greeted the
Oakland Museum
The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cal ...
and Ford Foundation earned Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates a ranking at the top of their profession. Shortly afterward they began a 40-year association with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
in New York City, for which they did extensive remodeling and built many extensions to house new galleries including the one containing the Egyptian
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur (Dendoor in the 19th century) is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis (later Dendur), Nubia about south of modern Aswan. Around 23 BCE, Emperor Augustus commissioned the temple dedicated to the E ...
. Other high-profile commissions for the firm came from clients as varied as
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...
, the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
,
Cummins Engines,
Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned subsidiary (since February 6, 2001) by Dow Chemical Company. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers befo ...
, The
United States Post Office
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the ...
, and the
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus (K of C) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Michael J. McGivney on March 29, 1882. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. It is led by Patrick E. Kelly, the order's 14th Supreme Knight. ...
.
In 1982, Kevin Roche became one of the first recipients of the
Pritzker Prize, generally regarded as architecture's equivalent to the Nobel prize. Following this accolade, Roche's practice went global, receiving commissions for buildings in Paris, Madrid, Singapore, and Tokyo. He completed his first and only Irish project,
The Convention Centre Dublin, in 2010.
Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates has designed numerous corporate headquarters, office buildings, banks, museums, art centers, and even part of the
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in ...
. Roche served as a trustee of the
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo (Janiculum Hill) in Rome.
The academy is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
History
In 1893, a group of American architects, ...
, president of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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, a member of the
National Academy of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the f ...
, and a member of the
U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States, and was established in 1910. The CFA has review (but not approval) authority over the "design and aesthetics" of all construction with ...
.
Roche died on March 1, 2019, at his home in
Guilford, Connecticut
Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford and Durham, and is situated on I-95 and the Connecticut seacoast. The population was 22,073 at the 2020 census.
History
Guil ...
, aged 96.
Prizes and awards
The work of Kevin Roche has been the subject of special exhibitions at the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, the
Architectural Association of Ireland
The Architectural Association of Ireland is an organisation dedicated to architecture in Ireland. It is not a professional accredited organisation but is open to all. Its activities include the organisation of a public lecture series, an annual ar ...
in Dublin, and the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headq ...
. A 2012 exhibition, ''Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment,'' opened at the
Yale School of Architecture
The Yale School of Architecture (YSOA) is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University, and is generally considered to be one of the best architecture schools in the United States. The School awards the degrees of Master of Arc ...
in New Haven, Connecticut, and has been viewed at The Museum of the City of New York, the Building Museum in Washington, and the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
.
In addition to the
Pritzker Prize, Roche was the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the
American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to su ...
Gold Medal Award, the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headqu ...
Gold Medal Award for Architecture, and the ''French Academie d'Architecture'' Grand Gold Medal.
Film
A feature documentary called ''Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect'' was released in 2017. It was directed by Irish filmmaker (and former architecture student) Mark Noonan.
Buildings
*1966 –
Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cal ...
, Oakland, California
*1968 – The
Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice (also known as 321 East 42nd Street, 320 East 43rd Street, or the Ford Foundation Building) is a 12-story office building in East Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Designed by architect Kevin Ro ...
, New York, New York
*1969 – Administration, Student Union & Physical Education Buildings,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...
, Rochester, New York
*1969 – The
Knights of Columbus Building Headquarters, New Haven, Connecticut
*1969 – United States Post Office, Columbus, Indiana
*1969 – Aetna Life and Casualty Company Computer Headquarters, Hartford, Connecticut
*1971 – Power Center for the Performing Arts,
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
, Ann Arbor, Michigan
*1972 – Cummins Inc. Irwin Office Building Arcade, Columbus, Indiana
*1972 -
New Haven Coliseum
New Haven Coliseum was a sports and entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Construction began in 1968 and was completed in 1972. The Coliseum was officially closed on September 1, 2002, by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., and d ...
, New Haven, Connecticut, (demolished 2002)
*1973 – Center for the Arts,
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...
, Middletown, Connecticut
*1973 – Cummins Midrange Engine Plant, Columbus, Indiana
*1974 –
Fine Arts Center,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, ...
, Amherst, Massachusetts
*1974 –
The Pyramids, College Life Insurance Company of America headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana
*1978 –
John Deere World Headquarters
The John Deere World Headquarters is a complex of four buildings located on 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) of land at One John Deere Place, Moline, Illinois, United States. The complex serves as corporate headquarters for agricultural heavy equipme ...
, West Office Building, Moline, Illinos
*1979 –
Denver Performing Arts Complex
The Denver Performing Arts Complex (also referred to as the "Arts Complex") is located in Denver, Colorado and is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. The DCPA is a four-block, site containing ten performance sp ...
, Denver, Colorado
*1982 –
The Corporate Center, Danbury, Connecticut (originally the
Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned subsidiary (since February 6, 2001) by Dow Chemical Company. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers befo ...
Corporate Center)
*1982 – Moudy Visual Arts and Communication Building,
Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private research university in Fort Worth, Texas. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison and Randolph Clark as the Add-Ran Male & Female College. It is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciple ...
, Fort Worth, Texas
*1983 – 2 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York
*1983 –
General Foods Corporate Headquarters, Ryebrook, New York
*1983 –
Cummins Corporate Office Building
The Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus, Indiana, Columbus, Indiana is a Modern architecture, modernist office building designed by Kevin Roche. Constructed in 1983, the building serves as the corporate headquarters of the Cummins engine ...
, Columbus, Indiana
*1985 –
Cummins Engine Company Corporate Headquarters, Columbus, Indiana
*1985 –
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum (DWDAM), is a museum dedicated to British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, located in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Situated just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg, D ...
, Williamsburg, Virginia
*1986 – Conoco Inc. Petroleum Headquarters, Houston, Texas
*1988 –
Central Park Zoo, New York, New York
*1988 – Bouygues World Headquarters, Saint-Quentin-Yvelines, France
*1989 –
Leo Burnett Building Company Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois
*1990 –
750 7th Avenue, New York, New York
*1990 – Metropolitano Office Building, Madrid, Spain
*1992 – J. P. Morgan Headquarters, New York, New York
*1993 –
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The co ...
Corporate Headquarters, Corning, New York
*1993 –
Merck & Co. Inc.
Headquarters, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
*1993 –
NationsBank Building (now Bank of America Plaza), Atlanta, Georgia
*1993 – Borland International Corporate Headquarters, Scotts Valley, California
*1993 – Tanjong and Binariang Headquarters/
Menara Maxis
Maxis Tower ( ms, Menara Maxis) is a 49-storey, office skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower serves as headquarters of Maxis Communications and Tanjong Plc Group of Companies.
Maxis Tower was developed by ...
, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*1994 – Pontiac Marina
Millenia Tower and Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Singapore
*1995 –
Dai-ichi Life
, or Dai-ichi Life for short, is the third-largest life insurer in Japan by revenue, behind Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life.
Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-Ichi was one of the oldest mutual insurance companies in Japan until a motion to ...
Headquarters/ Norinchukin Bank Headquarters,
DN Tower 21
DN Tower 21"D" stands for Dai-ichi Life and "N" stands for the Norinchukin Bank is an office building in Tokyo, Japan. It includes the former Dai-Ichi Seimei Building, in which Douglas MacArthur had his headquarters during the occupation of J ...
, Tokyo, Japan
*1996 – Cummins Columbus Engine Plant Expansion, Columbus, Indiana
*1997 –
Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*1997 –
Shiodome City Center
is a skyscraper in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan managed by Mitsui Fudosan and Alderney Investments Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited.
Fujitsu's worldwide headquarters are in Sh ...
, Tokyo, Japan
*1997 – Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life/
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, generally known as NYU Skirball, is an 850-seat theater at 566 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan, New York, owned by New York University. It was named after philanthropist Jack H. Skirball. The th ...
, New York University, New York, New York
*1997 – Lucent Technologies, Lisle, IL/Naperville, Illinois
*1997 –
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York
*2000 – Ciudad
Grupo Santander
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, Madrid, Spain
*2001 –
Securities and Exchange Commission Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
*2002 –
Bouygues SA Holding Company Headquarters, Paris, France
*2003 –
1101 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C.
*2003 – Renovation to Greek and Roman Court at
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, New York, New York
*2005 – Lafayette Tower, Washington, D.C.
*2007 – Renovation to
American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
*2008 – Renovation to American Wing at
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, New York, New York
*2009 –
David S. Ingalls Rink Restoration and Addition, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
*2010 –
Convention Centre Dublin
The Convention Centre Dublin () is a convention centre in the Dublin Docklands, Ireland. The Convention centre overlooks the River Liffey at Spencer Dock. It was designed by the Irish-born American architect Kevin Roche. Construction started i ...
, Dublin, Ireland
*2011 – Renovation to Islamic Wing at
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, New York, New York
Awards and honors
Roche was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including:
*
Pritzker Prize
* American Institute of Architects –
AIA Gold Medal
The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."
It is the Ins ...
*
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals
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*Belles Lettres and Criticism, and Painting;
*Biography and Mus ...
– Gold Medal Award for Architecture
* Academie d'Architecture – Grand Gold Medal
* Total Design Award,
American Society of Interior Designers
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* Medal of Honor, New York Chapter of the AIA
* American Institute of Architects
Twenty-five Year Award
* Classical America's Arthur Ross Award
* Brendan Gill Prize of the Municipal Art Society of New York
* R. S. Reynolds Memorial Award
* New York State Award
* California Governor's Award for Excellence in Design
*
Albert S. Bard First Honor Awards, City Club of New York
* Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in Architecture
* Brunner Award of the American Institute of Art and Letters
* New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Award
Honorary Degrees:
*
Wesleyan University
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, Doctorate of Fine Arts
*
National University of Ireland, Doctorate of Fine Arts
*
Albertus Magnus College
Albertus Magnus College is a private Catholic university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now Dominican Sisters of Peace), it is located in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of New Haven, ...
, Doctorate of Fine Arts
*
Iona College
Iona University is a private Roman Catholic university with a main campus in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers and occupies a campus of in New Rochelle and a campus of in Bronxville, ...
, Doctorate of Fine Arts
*
Yale University
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, Doctorate of Fine Arts
Further reading
;Articles
* Currey, Mason. “Rediscovered Masterpiece: Ford Foundation”, ''Metropolis'' (December 2008), pp. 90–104
* McMillan, Elizabeth. “Kevin Roche: Pritzker Prize Winner”, ''Veranda'' (October 2007), pp. 150–158, 241.
* Lee, Sangleem. “Kevin Roche”, ''Space'' (July 2006); pp. 159–181.
;Special magazine editions
* Nakamura, Toshio. Kevin Roche, Architecture and Urbanism (A+U) Extra Edition, Tokyo, Japan: The Japan Architect Co. Ltd. Yoshio Yoshida, Publisher, 1987
* Hozumi, Toshio et al. Latest Works of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, Architecture & Urbanism, (A+U), No. 211, Tokyo, Japan: The Japan Architect Co., Ltd., April, 1988, No.211.
* Hara, Hiroshi and Nobutaka Ashira. America's New Architectural Wave: The Architect Kevin Roche's Appearance on The Scene, SD Space Design No. 63, A Monthly Journal of Art & Architecture, Tokyo, Japan: January 1970.
* Miller, Nory. Roche Dinkeloo, General Foods Headquarters, Texas Christian University Visual Arts Center, One Summit Square, Deere Financial Services Hdqrs., & Kevin Roche Interview Global Architecture, GA Document 9, A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd., February 1984.
* Futagawa, Yukio. Roche Dinkeloo, 6 High Rise Projects Deutsche Bank, J. P. Morgan, Design for Two Buildings in Denver, Dallas Competition, High Rise Study in Houston]. Global Architecture, GA Document 12. Tokyo, Japan: A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd., January 1985.
* Miller, Nory. Roche Dinkeloo Cummins Engine Company Corporate Office Building, Columbus Indiana & Conoco Inc. Petroleum Headquarters, Global Architecture, GA Document 14, editing and publishing by Yukio Futagawa, A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd., photographs, RETORIA: Y. Futagawa & Associated Photographers, December 1985.
* Futagawa, Yukio. Roche Dinkeloo, Bouygues Headquarters,Global Architecture, GA Document 22. Tokyo, Japan: A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd., January 1989.
References
External links
Profile.archiseek.com
yurgeles.net
PritzkerPrize.com
Yale School of Architecture Honors Kevin Roche with Exhibition, Symposium.Kevin Roche's six buildings in Columbus, Indianacolumbus.in.us
Oral history interview with Kevin Roche, 1995 Jan. 4from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York.
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20th-century Irish architects
1922 births
2019 deaths
Alumni of University College Dublin
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
Pritzker Architecture Prize winners
People from County Dublin
Irish emigrants to the United States
People educated at Rockwell College
Members of the Académie d'architecture
Presidents of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Recipients of the AIA Gold Medal