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Biography of Kevin Roche
Name: Kevin Roche
Birth Date: June 14, 1922
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Male
Occupations: designer
Kevin Roche
Kevin Roche (born 1922) was a brilliant designer best known for creating unique and distinctive images for corporate headquarters situated in urban and suburban areas.Kevin Roche was born on June 14, 1922, in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 17 he received his first opportunity to design and build--a cheese warehouse for his father, a successful agricultural businessman in Mitchelstown, Ireland. During World War II he earned a Bachelors of Architecture degree (1943) from the National University of Ireland. In 1948, after working briefly for the Dublin architect Michael Scott and for Maxwell Fry in London, Roche decided to emigrate to the United States. In that same year he entered the Illinois Institute of Technology (ITT), studying under Mies van der Rohe and receiving his Masters of Architecture degree in 1949. In 1950 he joined the firm of Eero Saarinen and Associates where by 1954 he had become the principal associate in design, with basic authority for all …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…projects as the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the TWA building at New York's Kennedy Airport and Deer & Co. headquarters in Illinois; with the late Eero Saarinen. On his own, he was the architect for the master plan for the Central Park Zoo in New York and the Nations Bank Plaza in Atlanta. Further Reading The best source on Roche is Franceso Dal Co's book, Kevin Roche (1985), which includes an extensive interview, an incisive analysis of his buildings, and an excellent bibliography. Other sources which are particularly good for their illustrations are "Architecture and Urbanism" (1987) and Y. Futagawa's, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, 1962-1975 (1975). Discussions about Roche can also be found in Paul Heyer, Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America (1966); Heinrich Klotz, The History of Postmodern Architecture (1988); and Robert A.M. Stern, New Directions in American Architecture (1977). Updated information gathered from LA TimesSunday, January 10, 1993; Roche Wins Architects' Gold Medal.
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