William M. LaRiche Jr. *70

William LaRiche, architect and a past president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, died Dec. 1, 2018, at age 76.

LaRiche graduated from Dartmouth in 1964. He then studied in France for a year with a Fulbright scholarship. In 1970 he earned a master’s degree in architecture from Princeton.

LaRiche then worked for Ewing, Cole, Erdman & Eubank in Philadelphia. He went on to work with various firms in New York City before opening his own office in Princeton, where he lived until 1990. During this period he was a lecturer at Princeton’s School of Architecture and the first director of the visual arts program. From 1985 to 1987 he was president of the APGA.

Moving to New York City in the early 1990s, LaRiche taught architecture at Stevens Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Technology, and designed many new structures. In his last decades he wrote, especially poetry. He wrote the text for Alexandria: The Sunken City. He had a friendship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who encouraged his poetry.

LaRiche is survived by his first wife, Marianne; his second wife, Viviana; two children; and three grandchildren.

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