By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 2 at 7:13 PM Kevin Roche, a Pritzker-winning architect who emerged as one of corporate America’s leading designers during the postwar boom years and became an architect of choice for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major institutions, died March 1 at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 96.The Irish-born Mr.
In 1968, Mr. Roche unveiled his design for the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York. Twelve stories of glass-walled offices look out over treetops and a lush conservatory — an indoor garden oasis in midtown Manhattan that to this day remains open to the public. Other wings of the Met were renovated to provide better traffic flow for the rapidly growing crowds. In the parts of the museum that Mr. Roche overhauled, massive skylights bathe the artwork with natural light, and sloping glass walls allow visitors to look directly out to Central Park. The lines are crisp and modern, contrasting with the classical formality of the original Beaux-Arts building.
The New Haven Coliseum in Connecticut, a hulking arena completed in 1972 as part of an ambitious urban-renewal scheme, was widely criticized for being built to a scale better suited to the monster trucks that occasionally faced off inside the stadium than to the humans in the surrounding community. In 2007, the city demolished the concrete-and-steel structure, a job that required more than one ton of dynamite.
Mr. Roche “reinvented the museum, and reinvented the office,” said Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, an associate professor of architecture at Yale University and editor of “Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment.” His instructors were largely concerned with passing down the hard-boiled conventions of Beaux-Arts architecture, but Mr. Roche was drawn to the pared-down minimalism that was being pioneered by architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose work he had come across in magazines. After finishing his degree in 1945, he moved to London and found a job with Maxwell Fry, one of the first British architects to renounce the classical style in favor of modernism.
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