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'''Eamonn Kevin Roche''' {{post-nominals|list=[[FAIA]]}} (June 14, 1922 – March 1, 2019) was an Irish-born American [[Pritzker Prize]]-winning architect.
Roche and Dinkeloo were 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 facility|research facilities]], [[performing arts center]]s, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], and thereafter designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the reopened American<ref>{{cite news|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=2012-01-15|title=The Met Reimagines the American Story|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-american-wing-galleries-review.html|access-date=2012-02-23}}</ref> and Islamic wings.
Born in [[Dublin]] and a graduate from [[University College Dublin]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Memoriam Kevin Roche: 1922 - 2019|url=https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2019/march/05/inmemoriamkevinroche1922-2019/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=www.ucd.ie}}</ref> Roche went to the United States to study with [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] at the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]]. In the U.S., he became the principal designer for [[Eero Saarinen]], and opened his own architectural firm in 1967.
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==Biography==
===Early Life===
Born in [[Dublin]], but raised in [[Mitchelstown]], [[County Cork]], Roche attended [[Rockwell College]] and graduated from [[University College Dublin]] in 1945. He then worked with [[Michael Scott (architect)|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]], 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]].▼
[[File:M8 and Galty Mountains, Mitchelstown (506758) (28455067412).jpg|On the [[M8 motorway (Ireland)|M8]] with the Galty Mountains by Mitchelstown, County Cork|thumb|upright=1.2|left]][[File:Allied Irish Bank - Paul Roche, Mitchelstown - geograph.org.uk - 4177089.jpg|thumb|right|Main Street, Mitchelstown, County Cork]]
Roche was born in [[Dublin, Ireland]], during one of the most tumultuous periods in Irish history: the [[Irish Civil War]]. Eamon Roche, Kevin's father, had been jailed twice for "revolutionary activities."<ref name="Roche on Roche">{{cite book |last1=Roche |first1=Kevin |last2=Dal Co |first2=Francesco |title=Kevin Roche |date=1985 |publisher=Rizzoli International Publications |location=New York |isbn=0-8478-0680-4 |quote=When [my father] was released from jail he joined the dairy cooperative movement in a small town where he became an ambitious manager.|pages=7-93 |edition=1st |url=https://archive.org/details/kevinroche00roch/page/9/mode/2up |access-date=14 May 2024}} </ref> Kevin was born during his father's second imprisonment.<ref name="Interview by Weaver" /><ref name="Pelkonen" /> After Eamon was released from prison, he moved his family far away from war-torn Dublin to the pastoral hamlet of [[Mitchelstown]] in southwestern [[County Cork, Ireland|Ireland]]. Situated at the foothills of the idyllic [[Galtymore|Galtee Mountain Range]], Roche's upbringing was anything but typical. It was forged by Eamon's keen managerial oversight of the Mitchelstown Dairy Co-operative in which Kevin worked alongside his father: as dairy farmers. Eamon Roche successfully annexed all the surrounding dairy cooperatives, forging them into the largest in [[Munster, Ireland|southwest Ireland]].<ref name="Interview by Weaver" /><ref name="Pelkonen" /> Roche's life-changing moment came when his father asked him to design a warehouse to store the cheese that the dairy farms produced. Whether Eamon may have known that his son had an interest in architecture is not known,<ref name="Interview by Weaver" /> but this sentinel event, recalled by Kevin, came about by his immersion into reading a book by the English architect [[John Ruskin]], [[The Seven Lamps of Architecture]].<ref name="Pelkonen" />
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[[File:Saarinen office staff. Eero Saarinen (left) and Kevin Roche, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.jpg|thumb| left|Roche (right) with [[Eero Saarinen]] in the 1950s]]
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