“Architecture as Environment”

Pritzker Prize-winner Kevin Roche, one of America's most influential and prolific architects, acclaimed for his skillful integration of man-made and natural environments, will be the subject of an exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York September 27, 2011, through January 22, 2012.

Drawing on material originally presented at the Yale School of Architecture, the exhibition has been expanded to highlight Roche's contributions to the fabric of New York City, including the Ford Foundation building and more than four decades of master planning, design, renovations, and new additions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment features original drawings, models, photographs, and ephemera documenting Roche's career, along with extensive video presentations of projects and interviews with the architect. Roche's predominant interest in bringing together-as closely as possible-the natural and built environments are a dominant theme and overall highlight of the exhibition.

Roche is a leading member of the so-called Third Generation of modern architecture, which includes Robert Venturi and James Stirling. "Roche is perhaps the most cerebral and systematic thinker in this group and can be credited, among other things, with introducing systems analysis into architecture. He was one of the first architects to engage new environmental paradigms, such as taking on transportation as an architectural problem and introducing landscape into his buildings," say exhibition organizers.

The subtitle of the exhibition, "Architecture as Environment," reflects Roche's understanding of architecture as a part of a larger context, both man-made and natural, including symbolic systems and technological networks.

Place : Museum of the City of New York 
During : 27^th September 2011 to 22^nd January 2012
Information : http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/future/Kevin-Roche-Architecture-as-Environment.html