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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. He was responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include eight museums, 38 corporate headquarters, seven 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 205,629 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Kevin Roche is the 203rd most popular architect (down from 185th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 74th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Architect.

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  • 35

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Kevin Roche ranks 203 out of 424Before him are Hassan Fathy, Giovanni Giocondo, Quatremère de Quincy, Christian de Portzamparc, Ödön Lechner, and Adrian Smith. After him are Yan Liben, Callimachus, Mart Stam, Carlo Rainaldi, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, and Nicholas Negroponte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Kevin Roche ranks 136Before him are Vasili Mitrokhin, Eleanor Parker, Sōsuke Uno, Manolis Glezos, Yuri Knorozov, and Charles M. Schulz. After him are Howard Zinn, Luis Somoza Debayle, Tadeusz Borowski, Kingsley Amis, Bernardin Gantin, and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg. Among people deceased in 2019, Kevin Roche ranks 119Before him are Yukiya Amano, Klaus Kinkel, Sue Lyon, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Rip Torn, and Rafi Eitan. After him are Antoine Gizenga, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Jacques Loussier, John C. Bogle, and Harold Bloom.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Kevin Roche ranks 83 out of 501Before him are Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), James Hoban (1762), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), and Neil Jordan (1950). After him are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Peter Lacy (1678), Saint Kilian (640), Brenda Fricker (1945), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883).

Among ARCHITECTS In Ireland

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