Editing Kevin Roche (section)

===Eero Saarinen & Associates, Michigan===
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 |qalign = center}} After his father Eliel died, Eero Saarinen moved up to assume directorship. In 1950, Roche joined the firm.<ref name="irishtimes">{{Cite news|date=2011-04-09|title=An Irish starchitect: the iconic buildings that have made Kevin Roche's reputation|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/2.642/an-irish-starchitect-the-iconic-buildings-that-have-made-kevin-roche-s-reputation-1.568075}}</ref> His future partner, [[John Dinkeloo]] (1918-1991), joined the firm in 1951 after he had left the architectural form of [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] in Chicago. They became lifelong friends and business partners. There, Roche also met his future wife, Jane Claire Tuohy, with whom he eventually had five children. In 1954, he became the Principal Design Associate to Saarinen and assisted him on all projects from that time until Saarinen's death in September 1961.[[File:Saarinen office staff. Eero Saarinen (left) and Kevin Roche, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.jpg|thumb| right|Roche (right) with [[Eero Saarinen]] in the 1950s]]