Title & Author:

Making statements for history / [presented by] Kevin Roche.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1984.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Kevin Roche, 1984 -- Museum Complex, Oakland, California -- Ford Foundation HQ, New York -- Deere & Co. HQ, Moline, Illinois -- School For Texas Christian University -- Lehmann Pavilion, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York -- American Wing, Metropolitan Museum Of Art -- HQ For Pharmaceutical Company -- Factory In Columbus, Indiana -- Union Carbide Corporation. Diagrams Of Office Layout -- Union Carbide Corporation. Arrival Lobby -- Union Carbide Corporation. Typical Office -- Union Carbide Corporation. Cafeteria -- Union Carbide Corporation. External Detail -- Union Carbide Corporation. Overall View -- Insurance Buildings By Indianapolis Freeway -- United Nations Plaza. General View -- United Nations Plaza. Lobby -- General Foods Corporation HQ, White Plains, New York. Entrance Approach -- General Foods Corporation HQ, White Plains, New York. Interior Community Space -- General Foods Corporation HQ, White Plains, New York. Overall View At Night.

Summary:

Irish-born Kevin Roche and the late John Dinkeloo were partners with Eero Saarinen, inheriting the practice when he died in 1966. Since then, their output has been prolific and brilliant, in the main for the worlds of government, education and big corporations, aesthetically daring and innovative, yet in the mainstream of the Modern movement. In his recording, Roche explains that "architecture is a language between people, from age to age. It has a structure, form, syntax and style, and says something about our time, our culture, our preoccupations, our political society, our honesty and our sophistication. Architects have the peculiar situation that while they think they are building buildings, they are in fact making statements for history, and if they thought about it in those terms, they might be a little more cautious, careful and thorough".

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019, narrator.