Word: dinkeloo
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Roche heads one of the most successful U.S. architectural firms, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates (Dinkeloo died last summer). Among the firm's acclaimed buildings are the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City, the new buildings of Deere & Co. in Moline, 111., and the additions to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Temple of Dendur Pavilion, the Michael C. Rockefeller Primitive Art Wing and the Robert Lehman Pavilion. New corporate headquarters for Union Carbide Corp., General Foods Corp. and Conoco Inc. are nearing completion. Early this month plans were announced for redesigning New York...
...most decisive influence on him at the time was Eero Saarinen, son of the eminent Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. The young Saarinen had just opened his independent practice in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Roche and Dinkeloo, an architect who was a genius at structural engineering, joined the firm at about the same time...
...article, which should be rectified. The design of the installation, which Hughes accurately praises, was the work of Stuart Silver, principal design consultant and formerly director of design at the Metropolitan Museum, and Clifford LaFontaine, design associate and project coordinator. Architect Kevin Roche, of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates, did create the building itself; however, the actual installation was the inspired work of Silver and LaFontaine. We feel it is important to assign credit to them for their splendid achievement...
...architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost...
DIED. John Dinkeloo, 63, architect and engineer who, with associates Kevin Roche and the late Eero Saarinen, designed such celebrated works as the CBS Building in New York City, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Fredericksburg...