Kevin Roche (born 1922) was a brilliant designer best known for creating unique and distinctive images for corporate headquarters situated in urban and suburban areas.

Kevin Roche was born on June 14, 1922, in Dublin, Ireland. When he was 17 he received his first opportunity to design and build--a cheese warehouse for his father, a successful agricultural businessman in Mitchelstown, Ireland. During World War II he earned a Bachelors of Architecture degree (1943) from the National University of Ireland. In 1948, after working briefly for the Dublin architect Michael Scott and for Maxwell Fry in London, Roche decided to emigrate to the United States. In that same year he entered the Illinois Institute of Technology (ITT), studying under Mies van der Rohe and receiving his Masters of Architecture degree in 1949. In 1950 he joined the firm of Eero Saarinen and Associates where by 1954 he had become the principal associate in design, with basic authority for...