Pablo La Roche

Pablo La Roche was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He has an architecture degree from Universidad del Zulia and a PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. He is a Professor of Architecture and Interim Director of the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at California State Polytechnic University Pomona and a Sustainable Design Leader in the global architecture firm CallisonRTKL. He has received multiple awards for his work and in 2008 he led an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students that won the NCARB Grand Prize for the Department of Architecture. His research interests include passive cooling systems, low energy, carbon neutral architecture and affordable housing, having published multiple papers in these topics in conferences and journals. In 2001, he was the principal author of the sixth book in a series published by the Passive Low Energy Architecture Association PLEA, "Keeping Cool: Guidelines to Avoid Overheating in Buildings". His projects with emphasis on sustainability and affordability have been published or received awards in Venezuela, Mexico and Spain.