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Roche, lanky, Dublin-born and taciturn, shrugs off all discussion of style, let alone postmodernism. A spreading architectural fashion, postmodernism seeks to reconnect functional glass-box modern with historic architecture. Says Roche: "I don't see history as an issue. I never lost sight of it. At a time...
In 1948, after working for various architects in Ireland and England, Roche decided to study under Glass-Box Master Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a year, Roche began bumming around the U.S. His not-so-taciturn fellow Irishman, Yale Art Historian Vincent Scully, contends...
Louis' Gateway Arch, the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport and the majestic Dulles International Airport terminal. Each building was different and exciting. Each was "to explore and expand the horizons of our architecture," said Saarinen.
In 1961, at the age of 51, Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University...