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Kevin Roche

1922 - 2019

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Eamonn Kevin Roche (June 14, 1922 – March 1, 2019) was an Irish-born American Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Kevin Roche was the archetypal modernist and "member of an elite group of third generation modernist architects — James Stirling, Jorn Utzon, and Robert Venturi — and is considered to be the most logical and systematic designer of the group. He and his partner John Dinkeloo of the firm KRJDA produced over a half-century of matchless creativity." Roche and Dinkeloo were responsible for the design/master planning of over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include 8 museums, 38 corporate headquarters, 7 research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kevin Roche has received more than 229,604 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Kevin Roche is the 212th most popular architect (down from 202nd in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Architect.

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  • 61.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kevin Roche ranks 212 out of 518. Before him are Adolphe Appia, Jacques Lemercier, Nicholas Negroponte, Friedrich von Gärtner, Josep Lluís Sert, and Ferdinand Fellner. After him are Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Ödön Lechner, Callimachus, Quatremère de Quincy, Félix Candela, and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kevin Roche ranks 150. Before him are Manolis Glezos, Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, Sōsuke Uno, Anatoli Papanov, Paul Scofield, and Susanna Agnelli. After him are Margherita Hack, Alan Perlis, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Anker Jørgensen, Artemio Franchi, and Bea Arthur. Among people deceased in 2019, Kevin Roche ranks 132. Before him are Patrick Sercu, Judith Kerr, Waldo Machado, Klaus Kinkel, John Havlicek, and Billy Drago. After him are Sue Lyon, Peter Lindbergh, Machiko Kyō, Václav Vorlíček, Jean Vanier, and Harold Bloom.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Kevin Roche ranks 90 out of 549. Before him are Eliza Lynch (1833), Andrew Graham (1815), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Saint Kilian (640), and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845). After him are Liam Cunningham (1961), Patrick Pearse (1879), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), Dymphna (700), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), and Charles Maturin (1780).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Ireland

Among architects born in Ireland, Kevin Roche ranks 3. Before him are Eileen Gray (1878), and James Hoban (1762). After him are Yvonne Farrell (1951), and Shelley McNamara (1952).

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