Kevin Roche (born June 14, 1922) is an Irish born American Pritzker Prize-winning architect. He has been responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include 8 museums, 38 corporate headquarters, 7 research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for 6 universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and since then has designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the recently reopened American and Islamic Wings.

Among other awards, Roche received the Pritzker Prize in 1982, the Gold Medal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990, and the AIA Gold Medal in 1993. In 2012, Roche was inducted into Irish America magazine's Hall of Fame.

Biography
Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott from 1945-1946. From summer to fall of 1946 he worked with Maxwell Fry in London. In 1947 he applied for graduate studies at Harvard, Yale, and 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. In 1949 he worked at the planning office for the United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. In 1950 he joined the firm of Eero Saarinen and Associates. In 1954, he became the Principal Design Associate to Eero Saarinen and assisted him on all of the projects from that time until Eero Saarinen's death in September 1961. Roche completed 12 major unfinished Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the Gateway Arch, the expressionistic TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport in New York, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, the strictly modern John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and the CBS Headquarters building in New York City.

In 1966 Roche and John Dinkeloo formed the firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates upon completion of Saarinen's projects. Together, their first major commission was the Oakland Museum of California, a complex for the art, natural history, and cultural history of California with a design featuring interrelated terraces and roof gardens.

Buildings

The Head Office for Bouygues SA Holding company received the “Haute Qualité Environnementale (HQE)” which is the highest certification for environmental quality in building design in France.

Headquarters for Santander Central Hispano located in Madrid, Spain.

New American Wing for Twentieth Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The continuous glass wall at Lucent Technologies in Nurnberg, Germany wraps around the complex to create a unified street facade.

Unlike conventional New York office buildings which isolate the occupants, the Ford Foundation Headquarters creates an environment of openness and fosters a sense of working family.

The DN Tower 21 in Tokyo, Japan.
1966 - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
1968 - The Ford Foundation, New York, NY
1969 - Administration, Student Union & Physical Education Buildings, RIT, Rochester, NY
1969 - The Knights of Columbus Building Headquarters, New Haven, CT
1969 - United States Post Office, Columbus, IN
1969 - Aetna Life and Casualty Company Computer Headquarters, Hartford, CT
1971 - Power Center for the Performing Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1973 - Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1974 - Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
1974 - The Pyramids (Indianapolis) College Life Insurance Company of America Headquarters, Indianapolis, IN
1978 - John Deere World Headquarters West Office Building, Moline, IL
1979 - Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver, CO
1982 - The Corporate Center, Danbury, CT
1982 - Moudy Visual Arts and Communication Building, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
1983 - United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
1983 - General Foods Corporate Headquarters, Ryebrook, NY
1985 - Cummins Engine Company Corporate Headquarters, Columbus, IN
1985 - DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, VA
1986 - Conoco Inc. Petroleum Headquarters, Houston, TX
1988 - Central Park Zoo, New York, NY
1988 - Bouygues World Headquarters, Saint-Quentin-Yvelines, France
1989 - Leo Burnett Building Company Headquarters, Chicago, IL
1990 - 750 7th Avenue, New York, NY
1990 - Metropolitano Office Building, Madrid, Spain
1992 - J.P. Morgan Headquarters, New York, NY
1993 - Corning Incorporated Corporate Headquarters, Corning, NY
1993 - Merck & Co. Inc. Headquarters, Whitehouse Station,NJ
1993 - Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta) GA
1993 - Borland International Corporate Headquarters, Scotts Valley, Ca
1993 - Tanjong and Binariang Headquarters/Menara Maxis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1994 - Pontiac Marina Millenia Tower and Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Singapore
1995 - Dai-ichi Life Headquarters/ Norinchukin Bank Headquarters, DN Tower 21, Tokyo, Japan
1997 - Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1997 - Shiodome City Center,Tokyo, Japan
1997 - Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life/ Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, New York, NY
1997 - Lucent Technologies, Lisle, IL/Naperville, IL
2000 - Ciudad Grupo Santander, 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.
2008 - Renovation to Greek and Roman Court at Metropolitan Museum of Art
2005 - Lafayette Tower, Washington, D.C.
2007 - Renovation to American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
2008 - Renovation to American Wing at Metropolitan Museum of Art
2009 - David S. Ingalls Rink Restoration and Addition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2010 - Convention Centre Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (2010)
2011 - Renovation to Islamic Wing at Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Awards and Honors
Mr. Roche has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the following:

Pritzker Prize
American Institute of Architects - AIA Gold Medal
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals - Gold Medal Award for Architecture
Academie d'Architecture - Grand Gold Medal
Total Design Award, American Society of Interior Designers
Medal of Honor, New York Chapter of the AIA
American Institute of Architects Twenty-five Year Award
Classical America's Arthur Ross Award
The 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, Doctorate of Fine Arts
National University of Ireland, Doctorate of Fine Arts
Albertus Magnus College, Doctorate of Fine Arts
Iona College[disambiguation needed], Doctorate of Fine Arts
Yale University, Doctorate of Fine Arts
Exhibitions: KEVIN ROCHE Architecture as Environment
Yale University, New Haven, CT February 7, 2011 - May 6, 2011
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY September 27, 2011 - February 13, 2012
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. June 16, 2012 - December 2, 2012
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 [Introduction by Toshio Nakamura, essays by Ludwig Glaeser and Nubuo Hozumi.]
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.