Kevin Roche on How He Got His Start—Nodding Off in an Interview With Eero Saarinen
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In 1966, Saarinen’s firm was renamed Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. Roche and Dinkeloo won commissions for the Oakland Museum of California, the master plan and new wings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, One United Nations Plaza, and the Ford Foundation Building (above). Dinkeloo died in 1981, and today the firm is led by Roche and John Dinkeloo’s son, Christiaan Dinkeloo. Roche was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1982 and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects in 1993. He is the subject of a 2017 feature documentary titled "Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect."