Among his awards are the Fulbright Fellowship by the United States Department of State and the Chancellors Fellowship by the University of California Los Angeles, the Volunteer IMPACT Award from the USGBC, the EDUCATE Prize in Europe, and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Grand Prize for the department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona in 2008. His work was selected for the exhibit “New Blood: Next Gen” in the A+D Architectural Museum in Los Angeles, California in 2006 and La Roche was co-Curator of the exhibit “Technology and Environment: The Postwar House in Southern California”, supported by the Getty Institute as part of the series Pacific Standard Time in 2013.