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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1993
Born: June 14, 1922;
Dublin, Ireland
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Video (Real Player required)
Documentary, architecture of Kevin Roche (5:26)
Presentation of the Gold Medal by Presdident Bill Clinton, at the White House, and Roche acceptance speech (6:40)
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• Quincy Market, Boston
• National Aquarium, Baltimore
• 2002: Zesiger Sports Center, at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1976: Deere West Office Building, Moline, Ill.
• 1975: U.N. Plaza, New York City
• 1971: College Life Insurance Co., Indianapolis
• 1971 Power Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1969: Knights of Columbus Building, New Haven, Conn.
• 1968: Oakland Museum, Oakland, Calif.
• 1967: Ford Foundation headquarters, New York City
Biography
Kevin Roche was born in Dublin, but grew up in Mitchelstown,
County Cork. He earned a bachelor's degree in architecture in
Dublin in 1945. After graduating, he worked with Michael Scott on
the Busáras project—Dublin's central bus
station—and briefly in London for the firm of Fry, Drew, and
Partners.
Emigrating to the United States in 1948, he did postgraduate work
at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he
studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After that, Roche worked
for the United Nations Planning Office in New York City. In 1950,
he joined the firm Eero Saarinen and Associates; from 1954 to 1961,
he worked as Saarinen's principal associate in design.
After Saarinen died in 1961, Roche completed 10 of Saarinen's major
projects with his future partner, civil engineer John Dinkeloo.
Some of these projects include the stainless-steel Jefferson
National Expansion Memorial (the Gateway Arch) in St. Louis; the
Dulles International Airport terminal outside Washington, D.C.; the
TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport in New York; the John
Deere Headquarters in Moline, Ill.; and the CBS Headquarters in New
York City.
In 1966, Roche and Dinkeloo formed a partnership, Kevin Roche John
Dinkeloo and Associates, based in Hamden, Conn. Some of their more
prominent projects include the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New
York City and the General Foods Corporation Headquarters in Rye,
N.Y.
They approached every new project individually, carefully
considering and responding to the site’s and its surrounding
environment’s possibilities and limitations. For example,
Roche’s design for the Ford Foundation headquarters in New
York incorporates a large 12-story atrium, almost the
building’s full height, to the south and east; the offices to
the north and west open to the atrium and look across it to each
other. In keeping with the building’s environment, the
building is as low as possible, in line with the buildings on
neighboring streets.
Roche’s first important independent design, and one of his
most famous buildings, is the Oakland Museum in California. The
museum is a three-tiered concrete building with the different
levels connected by terraces and wide stairways and featuring
patios, courtyards, roof gardens, and ponds.
In 1982 Roche won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of his many
awards. He has received the California Governor's Award for
Excellence in Design, the Total Design Award from the American
Society of Designers, and the French Academy of Architecture’s
Grand Gold Medal; in 1979 the Academy elected him a member. In 1994
he was elected president of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, serving in that role until 1997. He has received honorary
degrees from the National University of Ireland and Wesleyan
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