2024-11-23T08:07:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/134181529/kevin-roche-the-quiet-architect-documentary-announced-for-2016 Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-08-14T12:22:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/j7/j7vzmtt1j2uaw3j4.tiff?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Wavelength Pictures, a London-based production company, has been awarded <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/133956285/exclusive-graham-foundation-announces-winners-of-2015-grants-to-organizations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">grant funding by the Graham Foundation</a> to put out "Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect", a feature-length documentary about the eponymous, Pritzker Prize-winning Irish-American architect. Wavelength has previously produced features profiling architects Oscar Niemeyer and Rem Koolhaas, among other artists, but this will be its first documentary.</p><p>Roche's career has been a long and storied one &ndash; at 93, he is still working at <a href="http://archinect.com/krjda" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC</a>, the firm he founded out of Eero Saarinen's office after his death. Roche first moved from Ireland to study architecture with&nbsp;Mies van der Rohe at the <a href="http://archinect.com/schools/cover/393/illinois-institute-of-technology-iit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Illinois Institute of Technology</a>, and has since compiled an impressive portfolio of institutional and corporate projects, spanning over the past half-century.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/wb/wbf19ulq62et2hbz.jpg"></p><p>The film uses Roche's lengthy career to discuss many issues contemporary to architecture in the 20th century and its development into the 21st. Fitt...</p>