Wavelength Pictures, a London-based production company, has been awarded grant funding by the Graham Foundation 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.

Roche's career has been a long and storied one – at 93, he is still working at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC, the firm he founded out of Eero Saarinen's office after his death. Roche first moved from Ireland to study architecture with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and has since compiled an impressive portfolio of institutional and corporate projects, spanning over the past half-century.

The film uses Roche's lengthy career to discuss many issues contemporary to architecture in the 20th century and its development into the 21st. Fittingly, the film's director, Mark Noonan, graduated as an architect from University College Dublin – where Roche also went – before deciding to switch into film.

Along with the Graham Foundation's funding, the film has received support from the Irish Film Board. If all the funds can be raised for production, the film hopes to debut at the end of 2016.

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