This year marks the 100th anniversary of renowned architect Kevin Roche”™s birth. In his memory and his wife, Jane, their children Eamon, Paud, Anne, Denis and Alice Roche have established the Jane and Kevin Roche Scholarship Fund launched with a major donation to the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, which will celebrate the significant gift and honor the architectural legacy of Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and associates at the Yale School of Architecture on Thursday, April 28. The evening will feature a recorded presentation by Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara of Grafton Architects, Dublin, Ireland.
Like Kevin Roche, a 1982 Laureate, Farrell and McNamara are the 2020 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Farrell and McNamara held the Louis Kahn chair at Yale in 2011 and had the opportunity to meet the Roches.
Architecture critic Cynthia Davidson, a friend of the Roches will lead a panel discussion with Brennan Buck, senior critic at the Yale School of Architecture. They will discuss the powerful and poetic work of both Kevin Roche and Grafton Architects.
A cocktail reception in the Yale Architecture Gallery will follow the lecture presentation. Tickets and sponsorships for the event can be purchased at the Connecticut Architecture Foundation website, https://cafct.org – roche event.
