A professional artist for more than 30 years, LaRosa has taught at Parsons School of Design and worked until recently as a partner in B Five Studio, an architecture and interior design firm. His publications include the books Architecture to Landscape (2005), House, Furniture, Object (2008), Myth, Modernity, and the Nature of Things (2012), One Place, Two Decades (2015), and Tabernacle (2023). He has received five Faith & Form Awards from the American Institute of Architects Interfaith Forum on Religious Art and Architecture.