Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates (KRJDA), also known as Roche-Dinkeloo, was an American architecture firm based in Hamden, Connecticut. It was created in 1966 out of Eero Saarinen & Associates, which Saarinen, who died in 1961, had asked to be renamed within five years of his death. Kevin Roche led the design and John Dinkeloo, was the expert in construction and technology. The firm completed more than 200 projects in the United States and abroad, and its style moved from massive façades of exposed steel and concrete to clean glass buildings. It won the AIA Architecture Firm Award in 1974, and in 2020 it moved to New Haven as Roche Modern.
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The Knights of Columbus Building in New Haven (1969) sets a tower between four cylindrical corner towers, standing for the four principles of the Catholic order; locals call it the "Tootsie Roll Building". The Power Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Michigan (1971) and The Pyramids (College Life Insurance) in Indianapolis (1972) followed. The Museum of Jewish Heritage (1997), a memorial to those murdered in the Holocaust, is a six-sided building with a pyramid roof.
