What is Kevin Roche?
[[File:Kevin-Roche.jpg|right|220px]] '''Eamonn Kevin Roche''' {{post-nominals|list=[[FAIA]]}} (June 14, 1922 – March 1, 2019) was an Irish-born American architect. He was born in [[Dublin]]. His career was based in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. He designed over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. His projects include eight museums, 38 corporate headquarters, seven research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art<ref>{{cite news|last=COTTER|first=HOLLAND|title=The Met Reimagines the American Story|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-american-wing-galleries-review.html?scp=3&sq=%22kevin+roche%22&st=nyt|work=Art Review|publisher=New York Times|access-date=23 February 2012|date=January 15, 2012}}</ref> and Islamic wings. He was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1982. Roche died on March 1, 2019 at his home in [[Guilford, Connecticut]], aged 96.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/arts/kevin-roche-dead-architect.html|title=Kevin Roche, Architect Who Melded Bold With Elegant, Dies at 96|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 2, 2019|access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * [http://archiseek.com/2009/kevin-roche-born-1922 Profile.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325211612/http://archiseek.com/2009/kevin-roche-born-1922/ |date=2012-03-25 }} archiseek.com * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930081958/http://www.yurgeles.net/Stein_Website/HTML/index.html New Haven Coliseum infosite.] yurgeles.net * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070925192107/http://www.pritzkerprize.com/roche.htm Kevin Roche profile.] PritzkerPrize.com * [http://news.yale.edu/2011/01/20/yale-school-architecture-honors-kevin-roche-exhibition-symposium Yale School of Architecture Honors Kevin Roche with Exhibition, Symposium.] {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Roche, Kevin}} [[Catego