Pablo La Roche

Pablo La Roche has practiced as a licensed architect in Spain and Venezuela, and is Associate AIA and LEED BD+C accredited in the United States. His projects have been published and received awards in the United States, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain. His research interests include passive cooling systems, low energy carbon neutral architecture, and affordable housing. He has published more than 150 papers in conferences and journals worldwide on these topics. His book Carbon Neutral Architectural Design (CRC Press-Taylor Francis, 2011, 2nd ed. 2017) has been in the top five in Amazon’s Energy and Buildings and a 3rd edition is forthcoming in Spring 2024. 

La Roche is also a Sustainable Design Leader at Arcadis, an Associate member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and past president of the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE). 

He has been a guest speaker at events worldwide, a member of architecture competition juries, a technical reviewer and session chair in local, regional, and international events and conferences, and an editorial board member of several journals. These include the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), the Passive and Low Energy Architecture Association (PLEA), the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and American Solar Energy Society (ASES) conferences. In 2016, he chaired the Passive Low Energy Architecture PLEA conference in Los Angeles. In 2013, he was Co-Curator of the exhibit “Technology and Environment: The Postwar House in Southern California” at Cal Poly Pomona, part of the Getty series “Pacific Standard Time.”