Roche-Dinkeloo, otherwise known as
Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC, is an architectural partnership based in
Hamden, ConnecticutHamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant." Hamden is home to Quinnipiac University. The population was 58,180 according to the Census Bureau's 2005 estimates...
founded in 1966.
The principal designer is 1982
Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment...
laureate
Kevin RocheKevin Roche is an award-winning twentieth-century Irish-born American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass....
, with John Dinkeloo — a graduate of the
University of MichiganThe A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the built environment at the University of Michigan. Formerly known as the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, TCAUP gained the namesake of billionaire real estate developer...
— as the expert in construction and technology.
Roche and Dinkeloo both previously worked with
Eero SaarinenEero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project : simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.- Biography :Eero Saarinen, who was born in Hvitträsk,...
. Almost all buildings built by Roche are with this firm, and they exhibit his particular architecture and aesthetic, although it has changed wildly throughout the past 40 years.
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Roche-Dinkeloo, otherwise known as
Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC, is an architectural partnership based in
Hamden, ConnecticutHamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant." Hamden is home to Quinnipiac University. The population was 58,180 according to the Census Bureau's 2005 estimates...
founded in 1966.
The principal designer is 1982
Pritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment...
laureate
Kevin RocheKevin Roche is an award-winning twentieth-century Irish-born American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass....
, with John Dinkeloo — a graduate of the
University of MichiganThe A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the built environment at the University of Michigan. Formerly known as the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, TCAUP gained the namesake of billionaire real estate developer...
— as the expert in construction and technology.
Roche and Dinkeloo both previously worked with
Eero SaarinenEero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project : simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.- Biography :Eero Saarinen, who was born in Hvitträsk,...
. Almost all buildings built by Roche are with this firm, and they exhibit his particular architecture and aesthetic, although it has changed wildly throughout the past 40 years. Earlier buildings were characterized by massive façades and experimentation with exposed steel and concrete, while more recent buildings emphasize a clean, glassy look suggesting futuristic and green architecture. The firm also built in
postmodernPostmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but which did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture...
and
historicistHistoricism refers to artistic styles that draw their inspiration from copying historic styles or artisans. So, after neo-classicism , the 19th century saw a new historicist phase marked by a return to a more ancient classicism, in particular in architecture and in the genre of history painting....
styles during the early 1990s.
The original partnership ended on Dinkeloo's death in 1981, however Roche maintained the firm's name with other principals.
Notable buildings
- IBM
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating...
Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, New York, New York (1964)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial...
Master Plan, expansion, and renovation, New York, New York (1966-ongoing)
- Ford Foundation Building
The Ford Foundation Building is an office building in Midtown Manhattan designed by architect Kevin Roche and his engineering partner, John Dinkeloo. Designed in 1963 and completed in 1968, its large tree-filled atrium was the first of its kind in Manhattan, and it is widely credited as setting...
,New York, New York (1968)
- Knights of Columbus Building, New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport and just ahead of Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people. "New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate area...
(1969)
- TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center or Trans World Flight Center, opened in 1962 as the original terminal designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen at New York's John F...
, Flight Wing One, New York, New York (1969)
- New Haven Coliseum
The New Haven Coliseum was a sports-entertainment arena located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Construction began in 1968 and was completed in 1972...
, New Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven is the second-largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport and just ahead of Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people. "New Haven" may also refer to the wider Greater New Haven area, which has nearly 600,000 inhabitants in the immediate area...
(1972)
- U.N. Plaza, New York, New York (1975)
- One Summit Square, Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. As of 2008, the city had an estimated population of 251,591, ranking it the 73
rd largest city in the nation. It is the second largest city in Indiana, after Indianapolis...
, IndianaIndiana is a U.S. state, the 19
th admitted to the Union. It is located in the Great Lakes region, and with approximately 6.3 million residents, is ranked 16
th in population and 17
th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38
th in land area, and is the...
(1981)
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
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Center for Folk Art at Colonial WilliamsburgColonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. It consists of many of the buildings that, from 1699 to 1780, formed colonial Virginia's capital. The capital straddled the boundary of two of the original shires of Virginia, James City Shire , and...
, Williamsburg, VirginiaWilliamsburg is an independent city of Virginia located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,998. It is bordered by James City County and York County, and is an independent city...
(1992)
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, in lower Manhattan, was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The hexagonal shape and tiered roof of the building are symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. It opened September 15, 1997...
, New York, New York (2003)
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