Editing Kevin Roche (section)

===Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates===
Later, Roche and Dinkeloo moved the practice to [[Hamden, Connecticut]]. Saarinen's firm morphed into [[Roche-Dinkeloo|Roche-Dinkeloo Associates]] or KRJDA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History {{!}} KRJDA Archive |url=http://www.krjda.com/history |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.krjda.com |language=en}}</ref> Today, the firm continues on as Roche Modern,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Firm |url=https://www.rochemodern.com/firm |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Roche Modern |language=en-US}}</ref> where Roche's son, Eamon, is currently managing director. Thus, Roche and Dinkeloo laid the groundwork for the preeminent architectural firm which has been coined the "poster child architectural firm of corporate America".<ref name="Kerr - modern architects">{{cite journal |last1=Kerr |first1=Ron |last2=Robinson |first2=Sarah K. |last3=Elliott |first3=Carole |title=Modernism, Postmodernism, and corporate power: historicizing the architectural typology of the corporate campus |journal=Management & Organizational History |date=2 April 2016 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=123–146 |doi=10.1080/17449359.2016.1141690 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297664755 |access-date=8 June 2024}}</ref>

In 1966, Roche and Dinkeloo formed [[Roche-Dinkeloo|Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates]] and completed Saarinen's projects. They completed twelve major unfinished Saarinen builds, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the [[Gateway Arch]] in St. Louis, the expressionistic [[TWA Flight Center]] at [[JFK International Airport]] in [[New York City]], [[Dulles International Airport]] outside [[Washington, D.C.]], the strictly modern [[John Deere World Headquarters|John Deere Headquarters]] in [[Moline, Illinois]], and the [[CBS Building|CBS Headquarters]] building in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite news|date=1992-12-14|title=Architecture Award to Kevin Roche|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/14/arts/architecture-award-to-kevin-roche.html|access-date=2012-02-23}}</ref>

Following this, Roche and Dinkeloo's 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Museums|url=http://www.krjda.com/Sites/Projects_Museums.html|access-date=2018-10-11|website=RocheDinkeloo|archive-date=September 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907072710/http://www.krjda.com/Sites/Projects_Museums.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The city was planning a monumental building to house natural history, technology, and art, and Roche provided a unique concept: a building that is a series of low-level concrete structures covering a four block area, on three levels, the terrace of each level forming the roof of the one below, i.e. a museum (in three sections) with a park on its roof. This kind of innovative solution went on to become Roche's trademark.

This project was followed by the equally highly acclaimed [[Ford Foundation Building]] in New York City, considered the first large-scale architectural building in the U.S. to devote a substantial portion of its space to horticultural pursuits. Its famous atrium was designed with the notion of having urban green-space accessible to all and is an early example of the application of [[environmental psychology]] in architecture. The building was recognized in 1968 by ''[[Architectural Record]]'' as "a new kind of urban space".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Barnett|first=Jonathan|date=February 1968|title=Innovation and Symbolism on 42nd Street|url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/news/2016/01-Jan/InTheCause/Ford-Foundation-Jonathan-Barnett-February-1968.pdf|magazine=[[Architectural Record]]|pages=105–112}}</ref>{{Quote box
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The acclaim that greeted the [[Oakland Museum of California|Oakland Museum]] and Ford Foundation earned Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates a ranking at the top of their profession. Shortly afterward they began a 40-year association with the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art New York|Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City, for which they did extensive remodeling and built many extensions to house new galleries including the one containing the Egyptian [[Temple of Dendur]]. Other high-profile commissions for the firm came from clients as varied as [[Wesleyan University]], the [[United Nations]], [[Cummins Engines]], [[Union Carbide]], The [[United States Post Office]], and the [[Knights of Columbus]].

In 1982, Kevin Roche became one of the first recipients of the [[Pritzker Prize]], generally regarded as architecture's equivalent to the Nobel prize. Following this accolade, Roche's practice went global, receiving commissions for buildings in Paris, Madrid, Singapore, and Tokyo. He completed his first and only Irish project, [[Convention Centre Dublin|The Convention Centre Dublin]], in 2010.

Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates has designed numerous corporate headquarters, office buildings, banks, museums, art centers, and even part of the [[Bronx Zoo]]. Roche served as a trustee of the [[American Academy in Rome]], president of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]], a member of the [[National Academy of Design]], and a member of the [[U.S. Commission of Fine Arts]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts|publisher=[[U.S. Commission of Fine Arts]]|year=2013|isbn=978-0-1608-9702-3|editor-last=Luebke|editor-first=Thomas|location=Washington, D.C.|page=553|oclc=768168746}}</ref> 
[[File:Kevin Roche March 1989.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Kevin Roche – March 1989]]

Roche died on March 1, 2019, at his home in [[Guilford, Connecticut]], aged 96.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=2019-03-02|title=Kevin Roche, Architect Who Melded Bold With Elegant, Dies at 96|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/arts/kevin-roche-dead-architect.html|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>