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Kevin Roche

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Kevin Roche is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland. The record places his birth in Dublin and death in Guilford. Getty classifies the person under these roles: architects. The nationality terms attached to the record are American and Irish. The record carries 3 forms of the name and the identifier 500032415. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Ford Foundation Building.

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Male 1
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)

Works Created

Source Ford Foundation Building (Wikipedia)
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)Record display
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Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)

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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)Birth and Death Places
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Born: Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) (inhabited place)
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1. Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)
Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names
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    Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)
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    Gender: male
  • Practices: Architecture, Record heading
    Roche, Kevin (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland)
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Kevin Roche (Wikipedia)
In Group: Modernist and Bauhaus Architects and Designers, Lead
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Kevin Roche was the archetypal modernist and "member of an elite group of third generation modernist architects, James Stirling, Jørn Utzon, and Robert Venturi, and is considered to be the most logical and systematic designer of the group.
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Ford Foundation Building (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWorks Created: Ford Foundation Building, Wikipedia intro
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Completed in 1967, it was designed in the late modernist style by architect Kevin Roche and engineering partner John Dinkeloo of Roche-Dinkeloo.
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