Kevin Roche (1922–2019) was an Irish-born American architect who received the Pritzker Prize in 1982. Born in Dublin, he graduated from University College Dublin and went to the United States to study under Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He became principal designer for Eero Saarinen and after Saarinen's death formed his own firm with the engineer John Dinkeloo in 1966. Together they designed more than 200 built projects, and from 1967 he drew up the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and designed all its new wings.
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The firm's first major commission, the Oakland Museum of California (1969), is a set of terraces and roof gardens for art, natural history and cultural history. The Ford Foundation Building in New York (1967) wraps its offices around a large garden atrium, the first such space in a Manhattan office building, behind a cube of glass and steel. The Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus, Indiana (1983) is built around the company's first factory. Late in life he returned to Ireland for the Convention Centre Dublin (2010), with its glass front and curving walls.
