Kevin Roche

Kevin Roche [ ɹəʊtʃ ] (debate as roach, born June 14, 1922 in Dublin ) is an Irish -born American architect, whose life's work was in 1982 with the Pritzker Prize for architecture, one of the world's most prestigious architecture prizes, appreciated.

Biography

Kevin Roche was born in 1922 in Dublin, but grew up in Mitchelstown (about 40 km northeast of Cork) on. He went on Rockwell College to school and then began studying architecture at University College Dublin. In 1945 he completed his studies with a Bachelor of Architecture and worked with the architect Michael Scott ( 1905-1989 ). Michael Scott gathered at this time a number of young, talented architects, most of whom had just left the university to. Except Kevin Roche these included Wilfried Cantwell (* 1920), Kevin Fox ( * 1922 ), Patrick Hamilton ( born 1921 ), Patrick Scott ( 1921-2014 ) and Robin Walker ( 1924-1991 ).

During his time with Michael Scott Roche worked at Busáras ( Áras Mhic - - Dhiarmada ) project. The bus station was completed in 1953 was one of the first modern buildings that were built after the Second World War in Dublin city center. At the same time Busáras should be the prototype for a number of other bus stations, which should be built in the future, even in Ireland. Roche did not stay until the completion of this project in Ireland.

Roche left Dublin and worked with the British architect Maxwell Fry (1899-1987) and Jane Drew (1911-1996) - Frys wife - together. Fry in 1933 along with Wells Coates ( 1895-1958 ) and Morton Shand ( 1888-1960 ), the so-called MARS Group (Modern Architectural Research Group) founded - a " think- tank" for modern and visionary architecture. But even here, it kept Roche not last long.

1948 emigrated to the young Irishman from the United States and studied one semester in a Master's program at the Illinois Institute of Technology Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After only short-term employment with the United Nations Planning Office he worked from 1951 to 1961 for Eero Saarinen ( Eero Saarinen & Associates) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Roche rose at Eero Saarinen & Associates will soon become the most important designers.

As Saarinen died in 1961 surprisingly early, Kevin Roche completed together with the Civil Dinkeloo John ( 1918-1981 ) twelve by then still unfinished projects from Saarinen, including the Gateway Arch ( 1961-1966 ) in St. Louis (Missouri ) the TWA Terminal (1956-1962) at JFK International Airport in New York, the Dulles International Airport (1958-1962) in Washington, DC and the high-rise headquarters of the CBS (1960-1964) in New York.

In 1966, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo changed the name of the architectural firm of Eero Saarinen & Associates Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates. The company had now moved its headquarters from Michigan to Hamden (Connecticut). One of her first projects was the Oakland Museum of California (1961-1968), Oakland ( California). It was followed by numerous other projects, including in New York, the headquarters of the Ford Foundation (1963-1968) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967-1985) and New Haven (Connecticut), the Knights of Columbus Building.

Awards

Significant works

Completion (along with John Dinkeloo ) of twelve projects by Eero Saarinen after his death ( see above); Moreover, often also in cooperation with Dinkeloo:

  • John Deere headquarters (1961-1964), Moline ( Illinois)
  • Oakland Museum of California (1961-1968), Oakland (California )
  • Richard C. Lee High School (1962-1967), New Haven ( Connecticut ); houses since 1995, the Yale School of Nursing and offices of the Yale - New Haven Hospital
  • Headquarters of the Ford Foundation (1963-1968), New York
  • New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum (1965-1972; demolished on January 20, 2007), New Haven ( Connecticut )
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967-1985), New York
  • Several buildings on the grounds of the Rochester Institute of Technology (1968 ), Rochester (New York): Mark Ellingson Hall, Nathaniel Rochester Hall, Sol Heumann Hall, George Eastman Building and Kate Gleason Hall
  • Knights of Columbus Building (1969 ), New Haven ( Connecticut )
  • Post Office ( 1969), Columbus (Indiana)
  • Power Center for the Performing Arts (1969-1981) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan)
  • United Nations Plaza (1969-1976), New York
  • Fine Arts Center (1968-1974), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst ( Massachusetts)
  • Headquarters of Union Carbide Corporation (1976-1982), Danbury (Connecticut)
  • Central Park Zoo (1980-1988), New York
  • National Aquarium in Baltimore ( 1981), Baltimore (Maryland)
  • Headquarters of the Morgan Bank ( 1983), New York
  • Headquarters of Bouygues (1983 ), Paris
  • Leo Burnett Building (1989 ), Chicago
  • Bank of America Plaza (1991/1992) Atlanta ( Georgia)
  • Museum of Jewish Heritage (1997-2003), New York
  • Quincy Market, Boston ( Massachusetts)
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